Screening of an antigen target for immunocontraceptives from cross-reactive antigens between human sperm and Ureaplasma urealyticum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2004-2011

  Shi, Jianli ^a   Yang, Zhengmin ^b   Wang, Min ^a   Cheng, Guoyan ^a   Li, Ding ^a   Wang, Yifei ^a   Zhou, Yuancong ^b   Liu, Xiaolong ^b   Xu, Chen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR AUTOANTIGENIC SPERM PROTEIN; PENTAPEPTIDE; PROTEIN UREG; SPERM ANTIBODY; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SWISS-PROT; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOANTIGENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 34147155780     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01171-06     Document Type: Article

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