Relationship between level of serum sperm immobilizing antibody and its inhibitory effect on sperm migration through cervical mucus in immunologically infertile women

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-146

  Shibahara, Hiroaki ^a,b   Shiraishi, Yasuko ^a   Hirano, Yuki ^a   Kasumi, Hiroyuki ^b   Koyama, Koji ^b   Suzuki, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical mucus; Infertility; Post coital test; Sperm penetration; Spermim mobilizing antibody

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM IMMOBILIZING ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHIBITION KINETICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POSTCOITAL TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

ANTIBODIES; CERVIX MUCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33846263335     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2006.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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