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Gender-specific Glycosylation of Human Glycodelin Affects Its Contraceptive Activity
1 Dec 1996
Abstract excerpt
We have recently demonstrated that a human amniotic fluid-derived glycoprotein, glycodelin-A (GdA; previously known as PP14 or PAEP), potently inhibits gamete binding in an established sperm-egg binding system and expresses immunosuppressive activities directed against a variety of different immune cell types. GdA has high mannose-, hybrid-, and complex-type biantennary oligosaccharides including structures with...
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