Immunization of male mice with B-cell epitopes in transmembrane domains of CatSper1 inhibits fertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 445-452

  Li, Honggang ^a,b   Ding, Xiaofang ^c   Guo, Cuicui ^a   Guan, Huangtao ^a,b   Xiong, Chengliang ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan Tongji Reproductive Medicine Hospital   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CatSper1; epitope; Immunocontraception; ion channel; male

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CATSPER1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE;

EID: 84856404033     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.11.043     Document Type: Article

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