Changes in the reproductive system of male mice immunized with a GnRH-analogue conjugated to mycobacterial hsp70

Reproduction

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-371

  Hannesdottir S G ^a,d   Han, X ^a,e   Lund, Torben ^a   Singh, M ^b   van der Zee, R ^c   Roitt, I M ^a   Delves, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LIONEX DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG CARRIER; FREUND ADJUVANT; GONADORELIN ANTIBODY; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RELAXIN LIKE FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE; VACCINE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONJUGATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INSULIN; LIPIDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 4544287650     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00108     Document Type: Article

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