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Zonagen preclinical data

November 21, 1994 8:00 AM UTC

ZONA (The Woodlands, Texas) and university collaborators published the cloning of three zona pellucida genes that show remarkable similarities among mammals.

The company is developing a way to prompt the body to generate antibodies to the zona pellucida to prevent entry of the sperm. As reported in DNA Sequencing, the full-length zona pellucida cDNAs from cat, dog, pig, mouse, rabbit, cow, hamster, marmoset and humans are highly homologous, especially within the same order (rodents, primates, and so forth). ...