Bioassays of gonadotropins based on cloned receptors

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 151-159

  Christin Maitre, S ^a   Bouchard, P ^a  

^a Serv d'Endocrinol Hopital S A   (France)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH); FSH receptor; Gonadotropin bioassays; LH receptor; Luteinizing hormone (LH)

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUCIFERASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; BIOASSAY; CHO CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA TRANSFECTION; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REPORTER GENE; SERTOLI CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030596017     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03946-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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