Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving antigen-antibody binding – specific binding protein...
Patent
1992-03-25
1995-02-14
Scheiner, Toni R.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein...
435 71, 435 72, 435806, 435 29, 436 63, 436906, E01N 33567, E01N 3353
Patent
active
053895193
ABSTRACT:
A method for detecting the presence of infertility in mammalian male test subjects based upon failure of sperm to undergo successful capacitation. Sperm samples are given the opportunity to undergo capacitation and subsequently contacted with antibodies to polypeptides having an amino acid sequence tripeptide of Arginine-Glycine-Aspartate in their cell binding domains. Binding levels indicate the degree of capacitation and consequently the presence of infertility.
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Scheiner Toni R.
The Research Foundation of the State University of New York
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