Autoantibodies against protein disulfide isomerase ER-60 are a diagnostic marker for low-grade testicular inflammation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2382-2392

  Fijak, Monika ^a   Zeller, Thomas ^b   Huys, Tatjana ^a   Klug, Jörg ^a   Wahle, Eva ^a   Linder, Monica ^a   Haidl, Gerhard ^c   Allam, Jean Pierre ^c   Pilatz, Adrian ^a   Weidner, Wolfgang ^a   Schuppe, Hans Christian ^a   Meinhardt, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRG Instruments GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

autoantibodies; ER 60; immunological infertility; member 3; protein disulfide isomerase family A; testicular inflammation

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHAPERONIN CONTAINING TCP1; IOXAGLIC ACID; TRANSFERRIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD DONOR; CELL LYSATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORCHITIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPERM QUALITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; IMMUNOLOGY; INFERTILITY, MALE; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TESTIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TESTIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913556399     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu226     Document Type: Article

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