Expression and production of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) in the normal secretory endometrium: Evidence of CGB7 and/or CGB6 beta hcg subunit gene expression

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Zimmermann, Gerolf ^b   Ackermann, Wilfried ^b   Alexander, Henry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Medical Laboratory Department   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Female reproduction tract; Human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg hcg receptor); Menstrual cycle; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ANTIBODY; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA 3; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA 5; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA 6; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA 7; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA 8; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; EXON; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ALLELE; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOLOGY;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84860630821     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.092429     Document Type: Article

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