Milestones in contraceptive vaccines development and hurdles in their application

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 911-925

  Gupta, Satish Kumar ^a   Shrestha, Abhinav ^a   Minhas, Vidisha ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Immunocontraception; Immunogenicity; Infertility; Population management; Sperm antigens; Vaccine; Zona pellucida glycoproteins

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CATION CHANNEL; CATION CHANNEL OF SPERM; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; DNA VACCINE; EPIDIDYMAL PROTEASE INHIBITOR; FERTILIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYME; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MURAMYL DIPEPTIDE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; OVALBUMIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROACROSIN; PROLACTIN; PSEUDOMONAS EXOTOXIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SP56 PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TETANUS TOXOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VECTOR;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; CONJUGATION; CONTRACEPTION; DRUG SAFETY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WILDLIFE; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; VACCINATION; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84899827046     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.27202     Document Type: Review

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