Reassessment of the role of human placental lactogen in physiological non-pregnant and pathological conditions

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-67

  Madersbacher, S ^a,b   Untergasser, G ^a   Gerth, R ^a   Hermann, M ^a   Schwarzler R ^a   Dirnhofer, S ^a,c   Berger, P ^a,c  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Human placental lactogen; Monoclonal antibodies; Physiological levels; Time resolved fluoroimmunoassay; Tumour marker

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROLACTIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 0031931925     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211952     Document Type: Article

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