الفهرس 
Genital Tract ANTIGENSOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Infertility may be due to a variety of causes of which
immunological factors probably play a role in about 5% of cases. This
differ;; from other groups of patients suffering from infertility with no
apparent cause explaining their inability to conceive despite exhaustive
tests. This group is known as ”idiopathic infertility”.
Immunological factors may affect any step in the reproductive
process starting from gametogenesis up to formation of sperms and
ova. They also can affect sperm function in mobility and capacitation by
cervical mucus.
Sensitization of the immune system may be due to exposure to
a foreign antigen resulting in iso-immunization or self antigen resulting
in auto-immunization. Both will subsequently result in formation of
antibodies which interfere with the reproductive process.
There have been many traditional methods for assessing sperm
function, but recently new methods for detecting antibodies evolved
facilitating the identification of the type of antibodies produced together
with identification of its s;te on sperm surface.