Biological properties of a novel follicle-stimulating hormone/human chorionic gonadotropin chimeric gonadotropin

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 4205-4212

  Garone, Louise M ^a,c   Ammannati, Elena ^b   Brush, Theresa S ^a   Fischer, David J ^a   Tos, Enrico Gillio ^b   Luo, Jiangping ^a   Altobello, Kimberley L ^a   Ciampolillo, Cinzia ^b   Ihley, Thomas M ^a   Kurosawa, Emmi ^a   Tiebout, Angela ^a   McKenna, Sean ^a  

^a Serono Research Institute   (United States)

^b Istituto di Ricerche Biomediche Antoine Marxer SpA   (Italy)

^c Serono Repro Biology Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT HORMONE;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INOTROPISM; LUTEINIZATION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS; WEIGHT GAIN; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RATS; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UTERUS;

EID: 33747597080     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0354     Document Type: Article

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