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Immunological Difficulties and Requirements for Immune Manipulations in the Field of Reproduction

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Contraception Research for Today and the Nineties

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Immune manipulations in the field of reproduction have two potential applications aiming at two opposite goals: (a) immunotherapy for sterility and repeated abortions and (b) anticonceptional vaccination for control of fertility.

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Voisin, G.A. (1988). Immunological Difficulties and Requirements for Immune Manipulations in the Field of Reproduction. In: Talwar, G.P. (eds) Contraception Research for Today and the Nineties. Progress in Vaccinology, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3746-4_34

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