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Human Chorionic Gonadotropin

Known as: Chorionic gonadotrophin, h-HCG, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) 
A sialoglycoprotein hormone secreted by the placenta and maintains the corpus luteum at the beginning of the gestation period.
National Institutes of Health

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Chorionic GonadotropinGlycopeptidesGlycoproteinsPlacental Hormones

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Recombinant Human Chorionic Gonadotropin

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Review
2011
Review
2011
Saving Mothers’ Lives. Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006–2008
Sir, I recently read with great interest the recently published triennial report into maternal deaths in the UK, Saving Mothers… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Circulating progesterone levels and ongoing pregnancy rates in controlled ovarian stimulation cycles for in vitro fertilization: analysis of over 4000 cycles.
BACKGROUND The influence of elevated serum progesterone levels during in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Screening for trisomy 21 by maternal age, fetal nuchal translucency thickness, free beta‐human chorionic gonadotropin and pregnancy‐associated plasma protein‐A
To derive a model and examine the performance of first‐trimester combined screening by maternal age, fetal nuchal translucency… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
First‐trimester screening for trisomy 21 by free beta‐human chorionic gonadotropin and pregnancy‐associated plasma protein‐A: impact of maternal and pregnancy characteristics
To use multiple regression analysis to define the contribution of maternal variables that influence the measured concentration of… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Circulating leptin in women: a longitudinal study in the menstrual cycle and during pregnancy
To investigate whether leptin is linked to reproduction, circulating levels were measured longitudinally throughout spontaneous… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Novel role of human chorionic gonadotropin in differentiation of human cytotrophoblasts.
Our laboratory previously demonstrated that cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts in human placental tissue contain hCG/LH… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Distribution patterns of extracellular matrix components and adhesion receptors are intricately modulated during first trimester cytotrophoblast differentiation along the invasive pathway, in vivo.
Development of the human embryo depends on the ability of first trimester cytotrophoblastic stem cells to differentiate and… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Ectopic production of human chorionic gonadotrophin by neoplasms.
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
A radioimmunoassay which specifically measures human chorionic gonadotropin in the presence of human luteinizing hormone.
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Radioimmunoassay: a method for human chorionic gonadotropin and human luteinizing hormone.
Purified human chorionic gonadotropin has been radioiodinated to give an immunologically and biologically active product which… 
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