Isolation of human lutropin from woman urine and comparison of its properties with pituitary hormone

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-183

  Kurowska, Ewa ^a   Szewczuk, Apolinary ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Comparative assays; Human luteinizing hormone; Human lutropin; Pituitary lutropin; SDS PAGE; Urine lutropin

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; URINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PITUITARY GLAND;

EID: 0040808944     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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