Enhanced contraceptive response by co-immunization of DNA and protein vaccines encoding the mouse zona pellucida 3 with minimal oophoritis in mous ovary

Journal of Gene Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1095-1103

  Li, Jinyao ^a   Jin, Huali ^b   Zhang, Ailian ^a   Li, Yijie ^a   Wang, Bin ^b   Zhang, Fuchun ^a  

^a XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Co immunization; Contraception; DNA vaccine; Follicular development; Immune suppression; mZP3 protein

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONA PELLUCIDA 3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY INFLAMMATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONTRACEPTION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARY; VACCINES, DNA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

MUS;

EID: 37349020736     PISSN: 1099498X     EISSN: 15212254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgm.1069     Document Type: Article

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