Royal College of Midwives-Evidence-Based Midwifery - Cervicovaginal beta human chorionic gonadotropin as a marker for prediction of preterm delivery
December 1, 2005 -- Abstract Aim. To explore the role of new biochemical markers in predicting spontaneous preterm birth in women with no obvious risk factors....
Clinical Chemistry - Persistent Low Concentration of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in a Nonpregnant Woman/Commentary/Commentary
January 1, 2008 -- Christopher R. McCudden, Monte S. Willis, and David G. Grenache* CASE A 48-year-old woman presented for radio-iodine ablation therapy 3 months after...
Clinical Chemistry - "Background" Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in Healthy, Nonpregnant Women
October 1, 2005 -- The report by Snyder et al. (1) in this issue of Clinical Chemistry solidifies at long last the use of 5 IU/L human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) as a...
Encyclopedia of Medicine - Human chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test
April 6, 2001 -- DefinitionThe most common test of pregnancy involves the detection of a hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample...
Clinical Chemistry - Preparation and characterization of new WHO reference reagents for human chorionic gonadotropin and metabolites
January 1, 2003 -- Background: The currently used standards for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and its alpha and beta subunits (hCG(alpha) and hCG(beta)) contain...
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - A Comparison of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin-Related Components in Fresh Frozen Serum With the Proficiency Testing Material Used by the College of American...
March 1, 2005 -- Context.-As part of a College of American Pathologists (CAP) proficiency testing survey, a comparison is made between human chorionic gonadotropin...
Clinical Chemistry - Fully automated chemiluminometric assay for hyperglycosylated human chorionic gonadotropin (invasive trophoblast antigen)
May 1, 2003 -- Hyperglycosylated human chorionic gonadotropin (HhCG) is a glycoprotein hormone secreted during embryonic implantation and trophoblast invasion of...
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - Comparison of Fresh Frozen Serum to Proficiency Testing Material in College of American Pathologists Surveys: [alpha]-Fetoprotein, Carcinoembryonic Antigen,...
March 1, 2005 -- Context.-Most proficiency testing materials (PTM) contain an artificial matrix that may cause immunoassays to perform differently with this material...
Market Wire - Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. to Present Published Data at the IXth World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
July 28, 2008 -- Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. ("SCT") (TSX VENTURE: SSS) announced today that Dr. Allen Davidoff, VP Product Development, will be presenting data from...
AORN Journal - Pregnancy testing on the day of surgery
June 1, 2008 -- Anesthesia and Analgesia April 2008 Elective surgery generally is postponed when a patient is pregnant because there appears to be an increased...