Immunogenicity and contraceptive efficacy of escherichia coli-expressed recombinant porcine zona pellucida proteins

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 139-152

  Gupta, Neha ^a   Chakrabarti, Kausiki ^a   Prakash, Krishna ^a   Wadhwa, Neerja ^a   Gupta, Tripti ^a   Gupta, Satish K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Contraceptive vaccine; Immunogenicity; in vitro fertilization; Promiscuous T cell epitope; Recombinant porcine ZP3 ZP4; Zona pellucida proteins

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; TETANUS TOXOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONA PELLUCIDA 3 PROTEIN; ZONA PELLUCIDA 4 PROTEIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY INFLAMMATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; PROMISCUOUS T-CELL EPITOPE; RECOMBINANT PORCINE ZP3/ZP4; ZONA PELLUCIDA PROTEINS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; EGG PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SWINE; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84880273978     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aji.12095     Document Type: Article

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