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ReviewAmerican journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989)2011

Antisperm contraceptive vaccines: where we are and where we are going?

Rajesh K Naz

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Review in American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Identification ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
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  7. Animal models of contraception: utility and limitations.Open access journal of contraception · 2015
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Vaccine for human contraception targeting sperm Izumo protein and YLP12 dodecamer peptide.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2014
    Review
  10. Review
  11. Birth control vaccine targeting leukemia inhibitory factor.Molecular reproduction and development · 2012
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rajesh K NazReproductive Immunology and Molecular Biology Laboratories, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, 1 Medical Center Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506-9186, USA. rnaz@hsc.wvu.edu
West Virginia University Hospitals · US

Funding

IMMUNOBIOLOGICAL ROLE OF FERTILIZATION ANTIGEN FA-1R01HD024425 · NICHD · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI NAZ, RAJESH K · 1994 to 2007
$1.9M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD024425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is a review of current status and future perspectives on the development of antisperm contraceptive vaccines (CV) and immunocontraceptives. The development of antisperm CV is an exciting proposition. There is a strong rationale and recent data indicating that this proposition can translate into reality. The search for novel sperm-specific antigens/genes, that can be used for CV, continues using various recent developing technologies. Various approaches of proteomics, genomics, reproductive biology, mucosal immunity and vaccinology and several novel technologies such as gene knockout technology, phage display technology, antibody engineering, differential display technique, subtractive hybridization, and hybridoma technology are being used to delineate sperm-specific antigens and construct CV. Various sperm antigens/genes have been delineated, cloned, and sequenced from various laboratories. Vaccination with these sperm antigens (recombinant/synthetic peptide/DNA) causes a reversible contraceptive effect in females and males of various animal species, by inducing a systemic and local antisperm antibody response. The efficacy is enhanced by combination vaccination, including peptides based on various sperm antigens. Several human novel scFv antibodies with unique complementarity-determining regions (CDRs), that react with specific well-defined fertility-related sperm antigens, have been synthesized. These human infertility-related antibodies may find application in the development of novel immunocontraceptives. Besides finding the novel sperm antigens, the present and future focus is on enhancing the immunogenicity, bioefficacy, and on obliterating the inter-individual variability of the immune response, and proceeding for primate and human clinical trials. Multi-epitope vaccines combining sperm proteins involved in various steps of fertilization cascade have been found to enhance the immunogenicity and bioefficacy of the contraceptive effect. The in vitro synthesis of infertility-related human scFv antibodies may provide unique once-a-month immunocontraceptives, the first of its kind, for human use. The multi-epitope CV and preformed engineered human antibodies of defined specificity may obliterate the concern related to inter-individual variability of the immune response.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigensCloning, MolecularComplementarity Determining RegionsContraception, ImmunologicContraceptive AgentsFemaleFertilityHumansMaleMicePopulation ControlRecombinant ProteinsSingle-Chain AntibodiesSpermatozoaVaccines, ContraceptiveAntigensComplementarity Determining RegionsContraceptive AgentsRecombinant ProteinsSingle-Chain AntibodiesVaccines, ContraceptiveVaccines, Synthetic

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PMID21481057
PMCPMC3110624
OpenAlexW1869735068

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