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Contraceptive Vaccines

Wanted: Women with Autoimmune Infertility

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 27th, 1996

Women who are sterile because their immune system attacks their ova may hold the key to a contraceptive vaccine.

Do such women exist' A Scottish/Dutch research team says that it is critically important to find out.

Writing in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunity, R.J. Aitken of the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit, Edinburgh, Scotland and colleagues argue that there is an immediate need for a contraceptive vaccine ("The Potential of the Zona Pellucida as a Target for Immunocontraception," Am J Reprod Immunol, 1996;35(3):175-80).

A vaccine would be ideal because no other means of voluntary contraception is as adaptable to...

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