Metabolism of gonadotropins: Comparisons of the primary structures of the human pituitary and urinary LHβ cores and the chimpanzee CGβ core demonstrate universality of core production

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 131-141

  Birken, S ^a   Gawinowicz, M A ^a   Maydelman, Y ^a   Milgrom, Y ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; DISULFIDE; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISULFIDE BOND; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; KIDNEY METABOLISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0034768699     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1710131     Document Type: Article

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