Secretion and excretion of human chorionic gonadotropin during early pregnancy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1000-1011

  Lohstroh, Pete N ^b   Overstreet, James W ^a,b   Stewart, Dennis R ^a,b   Nakajima, Steven T ^a   Cragun, Jeffrey R ^a   Boyers, Stephen P ^a   Lasley, Bill L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Immunoassay; Serum hCG; Spontaneous abortion; Urinary hCG

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXCRETION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENSTRUATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 17044384074     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.10.038     Document Type: Article

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