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Mucin Agarose Gel Electrophoresis: Western Blotting for High-molecular-weight Glycoproteins
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The molecular weight of aspermatogenic antigen as determined by equilibrium ultracentrifugation
Fertility and Sterility
|August 1, 1976
Abstract:
The extraction of antigen from testis and sperm is described. This antigen, when administered in microgram amounts in a single injection, induces aspermatogenesis in 100% of guinea pigs so treated. The deletion of the seminiferous cell line is specific (no cross-reactions) and provides a tool for investigating inhibition of cell replication as well as reproductive control. The antigen is a polypeptide-polysaccharide complex and has been determined to have a molecular weight of 10,520, using the equilibrium ultracentrifugation method.
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