Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving antigen-antibody binding – specific binding protein...
Patent
1995-05-15
1997-09-09
Green, Lora M.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein...
435 72, 435806, 435 2, 436821, 436906, 436518, 436519, 436 65, 436510, 530852, G01N 3353
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ABSTRACT:
Methods for detecting and isolating acrosome-reacted sperm and complement receptor-bearing oocytes using the complement component C3, fragments, or variants thereof, antibodies to a complement receptor, or antibodies to C3, are disclosed. These methods have application in the assessment of fertility, in the preparation of sperm or oocytes for in vitro fertilization or for gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, in promoting or inhibiting fertilization in vitro and in vivo, and in diagnosing and treating infertility.
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Anderson Deborah J.
Jack Richard M.
Johnson Peter M.
Bakalyar Heather A.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Green Lora M.
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