Antibodies of the abo system and the metabolism of human spermatozoa: metabolic changes induced by cooling and freezing

ABSTRACT ANAEROBIC glycolysis of washed human spermatozoa is inhibited by incubation with ABO isoantibodies when semen donors are of A or B secretor phenotype1. If this differential is

related to the fertilizing capacity of affected cells2–3, a bias would be expected in the transmission of the _A_ and _B_ genes in the population. On this basis and on the basis of other

data on fertility in the ABO system4–10, a mechanism which could account for the stability of the ABO polymorphism in terms of natural selection against gametes and intrauterine zygotes has

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