Converting heterodimeric gonadotropins to genetically linked single chains: New approaches to structure activity relationships and analogue design

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 100-105

  Ben Menahem, David ^a   Boime, Irving ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIMER; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; BETA CHAIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0029975957     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1043-2760(96)88667-X     Document Type: Short Survey

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