A two-site monoclonal antibody immunoradiometric assay for human follistatin: Secretion by a human ovarian teratocarcinoma-derived cell line (PA-1)

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1434-1441

  Wang, Q F ^a   Khoury, R H ^a   Smith, P C ^a   McConnell, D S ^b   Padmanahban, V ^b   Midgley Jr , A R ^b   Schneyer, A L ^a   Crowley Jr , W F ^a   Sluss, P M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT FOLLISTATIN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; OVARY TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORPUS LUTEUM; CROSS REACTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; FOLLISTATIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INHIBINS; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERATOCARCINOMA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029983726     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.4.1434     Document Type: Article

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