[Immunologic aspects of sterility and infertility].

In the complex field of reproductive immunology, related disciplines overlap. Beyond the normal projects of family planning and sterility diagnosis and treatment, new possibilities of population control and early detection of chromosomal and genetic anomalies are pointed out. After a short introduction to the topic of sterility and infertility, the immunoregulatory mechanisms during physiological and pathological pregnancies are discussed. The antigenicity in the female and male reproductive tract and of the gametes themselves are described in detail. Various methods for sperm-antibody detection are compared, especially, a radioimmunoassay developed by the authors.