Title | Chorionic Gonadotropin [electronic resource] / edited by Sheldon J. Segal |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1980 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1062-4 |
Descript | X, 508 p. online resource |
Comparative Physiology -- Early Studies of Chorionic Gonadotropin and Antihormones -- Primary and Secondary Biologic Activities Intrinsic to the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Molecule -- Chorionic Gonadotropin in Rodents -- Patterns of Secretion and Antigenic Similarities Among Primate Chorionic Gonadotropins: Significance in Fertility Research -- Chemistry, Metabolism, and Immunology -- Chemistry and Immunochemistry of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin -- Chorionic Gonadotropins: Comparative Studies and Comments on Relationships to Other Glycoprotein Hormones -- Structures of the Asparagine Linked Sugar Chains of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin -- Production and Secretion of HCG and HCG Subunits by Trophoblastic Tissue -- Large Molecular Species of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin -- Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion of Human Chorionic Goandotropin and its Subunits in Man -- Immuno-Biological Studies with Beta-Subunit of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and its Subfragments -- Limitations and Problems of HCG-Specific Antisera -- Molecular Biology and Regulatory Genetics -- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin ? and ? Subunit mRNAs: Translatable Levels During Pregnancy and Molecular Cloning of DNA Sequences Complementary to HCG -- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin: Studies on the Mechanism of Secretion -- Synthesis, Processing, and Secretion of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Subunits by Cultured Human Cells -- Regulation of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Synthesis in Placenta, Choriocarcinoma, and Non-Placental Tumors -- The Interaction of the LH/HCG Receptor with Adenylate Cyclase in the Rat Ovary -- Testis-Determining H-Y Antigen and the Induction of the HCG Receptor -- Evolution and Oncology -- Presence of an HCG-like Substance in Non-Pregnant Humans -- Apparent Chor ionic Gonadotropin Immunoreactivity in Human Non-Placental Tissues -- Gonadotropin Produced by a Microorganism -- Immunodetection of Choriogonadotropin-like Antigen in Bacteria Isolated from Cancer Patients -- A Bacterial Factor Cross-Reacting with Anti-CG -- HCG Production by Non-Placental Tissue and Its Significance