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G Kann

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PubMed1977

Oestradiol-17beta, progesterone, FSH and LH in prepubertal calves induced to superovulate.

Fluorogestone acetate (vaginal sponge for 4 days) and PMSG (i.m. injection at the time of sponge insertion) treatment was administered to seven 3-month-old calves to induce superovulation. Samples of peripheral plasma were taken every 4 h during treatment (4 days) and then every 2 h for 7 days. FSH, LH, oestradiol and progesterone were measured by radioimmunoassays. In all calves oestradiol concentrations increased 24 h after PMSG injection and reached the highest levels (41-502 pg/ml) during the preovulatory surge of both gonadotropins. The surge of LH and FSH occurred from 12 to 22 h after cessation of treatment. The maximum levels of LH and FSH were 11-72 ng/ml and 23-40 ng/ml respectively and occurred within 4 h of each other. Between 40 and 68 h after the LH peak the concentrations of progesterone began to increase from basal values, reaching 24.0-101.7 ng/ml when the animals were killed. A quantitative relationship was found between plasma oestradiol concentration and the numbers of ovulating follicles. Progesterone levels seemed to be related to the numbers of corpora lutea and also to the numbers of unovulated follicles. Gonadotrophin output was not quantitatively related to ovarian activity or to steroid secretion.

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PubMed1976

[The antigenic properties of human prolactin (author's transl)].

The antigenic properties of human prolactin (HPr) were studied using various methods of radio-immuno assay. The homologous system, the difficulty of which resides in the preparation of the tracer, easily permits measurement of physiological levels. In this systems, blood prolactin in the monkey, has an antigenicity comparable with that of human prolactin, whereas growth hormone and human chorionic somatotropin have feeble or nil antigenic relationship with HPr. Human, sheep and pig prolactins have variable antigenic cross-reactions depending on the immune serum used. These antigenic cross reactions may be applied to the isolation of amniotic prolactin Human blood prolactin has several components of different molecular weight, but antigenicity comparable with that of pituitary HPr.

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PubMed1975

[Preparation of an iodinated penicillin derivative for radioimmunologic use].

A 125I-BSA Penicilloyl conjugate was prepared by coupling Penicillin G to Bovine Serum Albumine previously labeled with Iodine-125. The reaction of fixation by covalent binding was made in alkaline solution without the use of carbodiimide. Immunoreactivity and specific activity of this labeled conjugate enable radioimmunoassay of penicilloyl groups.

Chemical Phenomena↗