A sensitive and specific in vitro bioassay for activin using a mouse plasmacytoma cell line, MPC-11

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-116

  Phillips, D J ^a,b   Brauman, J N ^a   Mason, A J ^a,b   De Kretser, D M ^a   Hedger, M P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; DOSE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PLASMACYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STANDARDIZATION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; INHIBINS; MICE; PLASMACYTOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032794127     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1620111     Document Type: Article

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