objective: seeking for fertility after previous vasectomy is increasing. vasectomy may break the blood testis barrier and in this way the level of antisperm antibody increases. it is suggested that increase in antisperm antibody decreases spontaneous pregnancy even after successful vasovasostomy. in this study we evaluated antisperm antibody formation 3 months after vasectomy. method: this stud...

Indirect immunofluorescence and hemagglutination study of reactivity to human cytomegalovirus immediate early, early, and late antigens revealed that antibody responses to these antigens varies greatly and that hemagglutination is positive when sera contain only antibody to one or both early antigens.

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The literature on the immunological aspects of tumor transplantation has been well reviewed by Hauschka (9), so it is necessary only to point out certain technical problems that form the basis for the present communication. The most striking recent advances in our knowledge of the genetics of tumor transplanta tion have been due to the work of Snell and his colleagues on the H-2 locus (13) and ...