Gonadotrophin receptor blocking antibodies measured by the use of cell lines stably expressing human gonadotrophin receptors are not detectable in women with 46,XX premature ovarian failure

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 376-381

  Tonacchera, Massimo ^a   Ferrarini, Eleonora ^a   Dimida, Antonio ^a   Agretti, Patrizia ^a   De Marco, Giuseppina ^a   De Servi, Melissa ^a   Gianetti, Elena ^a   Chiovato, Luca ^b   Pucci, Enrico ^a   Dal Pra, Chiara ^c   Betterle, Corrado ^c   Aghini Lombardi, Fabrizio ^a   Vitti, Paolo ^a   Pinchera, Aldo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Universita degli Studi di Pisa ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL LINE; CHO CELL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; CHO CELLS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRICETINAE; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN FAILURE, PREMATURE; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN;

EID: 4644259504     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02107.x     Document Type: Article

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