Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
This volume is devoted to the chemistry, immunology, molecular biology, and physiology of the human chorionic gonadotropin, heG. For this glycoprotein molecule the course from discovery to chemical deciphering covered about fifty years. It was in 1928 that Ascheim and Zondek reported that urine from pregnant women contains something that
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Elsevier
This resource describes the detailed biology, clinical chemistry, and clinical perspectives of HCG and associated molecules and examines HCG, hyperglycosylated HCG, and HCG free-subunit, three separate and independent molecules with totally sovereign physiological functions.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-11 - Publisher: Elsevier
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is produced during pregnancy by the embryo. It promotes progesterone production by corpus luteal cells. It also functions in pregnancy to promote angiogenesis in uterine vasculature, it immuno-blands the invading placental tissue so it is not rejected by the maternal uterine tissues, promotes the growth of
100 years of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin: Reviews and New Perspectives is a collection of articles written by some of the world's leading experts on the pregnancy hormone and cancer marker hCG. In 2019 it is difficult to ignore the effect that our understanding of hCG has had on the lives