Expression of luteinising hormone and chorionic gonadotropin beta- subunit messenger-RNA and protein in human peripheral blood leukocytes

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 79-85

  Hotakainen, P Kristina ^a   Serlachius, E Martina ^b   Lintula, Susanna I ^a   Alfthan, Henrik V ^a   Schröder, Jim P ^b   Stenman, Ulf Håkan E ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chorionic gonadotropin; Leukocytes; Luteinising hormone; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0034712993     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(00)00208-2     Document Type: Article

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