Previous investigations of patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia have shown that their urines often contain carboxyterminal peptide (CTP) fragments of the choriogonadotropin (hCG) beta-subunit as well as forms of hCG deficient in sialic acid. In order to determine whether beta-CTP fragments are among the urinary products of the peripheral degradation of desialylated hCG (as-hCG), us...

In this study, we aimed at delineating the possible effect of estradiol (E2) levels on day β-hCG administration ovary by analysingthe Embryo Score (ES) early 2, 44hrs post insemination. Oocyte donor ovarian stimulation protocols were thus used in order to avoid any counteractions E2 with endometrium. All oocytes microinjected and all embryo transfers fresh.E2 E2/oocyte correlated positively ES ...

BACKGROUND Patients with trophoblastic diseases produce ordinary and irregular forms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG; e.g., nicked hCG, hCG missing the beta-subunit C-terminal segment, hyperglycosylated hCG, and free beta subunit) that are recognized to differing extents by automated immunometric hCG (or hCG beta) assays. This has led to low or false-negative results and misdiagnosis of pe...

The unsatisfactory standardization of many immunoassays is fairly well recognized, but the problem is hard to tackle (1 ). Recently, studies on the performance of immunoassays for testosterone in female serum (2 ) and for urinary cortisol (1 ) have revealed that the quality of some widely used assays is totally unsatisfactory. The quality of assays for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) has als...

Background The purpose of this prospective randomized study was to compare ovarian response as well as oocytes embryo yields and pregnancy rates in women who underwent ovulation induction for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with recombinant human FSH (rFSH) alone or in combination with human menopausal gonadotropin (HMG). MaterialsAndMethods Out of 300 patients in assisted reproductive ...

Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) was desialized by treatment with neuraminidase to yield asialo-HCG, and comparative physicochemical studies were carried out on HCG and asialo-HCG. The E:trn value at 276 nm was 5.47 for HCG and 5.72 for asialo-HCG. Intrinsic viscosities of HCG and asialo-HCG at near isoionic point were estimated to be 3.4 and 3.2 ml per g, respectively. HCG had an isoionic po...

We evaluated the performance of four visually read pregnancy tests (TestPack Plus hCG Combo, ICON II hCG, SureCell hCG-Serum/Urine and PregnaGen 1-Step) designed to detect increased concentrations of choriogonadotropin (hCG) in either serum or urine samples. The biochemical sensitivities and specificity in both serum and urine samples were similar for each kit. All kits correctly identified pre...