New discoveries on the biology and detection of human chorionic gonadotropin

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cole, Laurence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; FUCOSE; GALACTOSE; METHOTREXATE; SERINE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLIMACTERIUM; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DOWN SYNDROME; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; GLYCOSYLATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STANDARD; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PRIMATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; TROPHOBLASTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62149105580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-8     Document Type: Review

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