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Chorionic Gonadotropin (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980) Loot Price: R1,607
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Chorionic Gonadotropin (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980): Sheldon J. Segal

Chorionic Gonadotropin (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)

Sheldon J. Segal

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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 stimulates the ovaries of mice or rats. This provided the basis for the famous A-Z test for pregnancy and for the "rabbit test" modification introduced by Friedman. As researchers sought to find more sensitive responses to heG, they used a wide variety of species including the South African aquatic toad, Xenopus Zaevis, the terrestrial toad of South America, Bufo arinarus, and the African weaver finch, EupZeetes afra. The weaver finch feather reaction was particularly noteworthy, for it disclosed a non-gonadal response to heG/LH. In retrospect, this may have been an important evolutionary clue to the realization that the designation of the hormone as a "gonadotropin" may have been only partially descriptive of the molecule's physiological function--a concept that is gaining attention, as the papers in this 1980 volume divulge.

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2012
First published: February 2012
Editors: Sheldon J. Segal
Dimensions: 244 x 170 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 508
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-1064-8
Categories: Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Endocrinology > Diabetes
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LSN: 1-4684-1064-4
Barcode: 9781468410648

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