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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 66, 538-545, Copyright © 1988 by Endocrine Society

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A radioimmunoassay for the core fragment of the human chorionic gonadotropin beta-subunit

AH Akar, RE Wehmann, DL Blithe, C Blacker and BC Nisula
Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

We developed a RIA for the beta-core fragment of hCG that is excreted in the urine of pregnant women and some patients with cancer. We purified beta-core from crude commercial preparations of hCG (of which beta-core is a major constituent) derived from pregnancy urine and used this purified beta-core material to immunize rabbits. One antiserum (RW25) was particularly useful in that a RIA with purified beta-core as both radioligand and reference preparation had high sensitivity for beta-core detection and low cross-reactivity with other hCG-related molecules and glycoprotein hormones. The cross-reactivities of purified hCG (CR125), hCG beta (CR125), and hCG alpha (CR125) preparations were in each instance less than 3 x 10(-3) (wt/wt). The cross-reactivities of purified pituitary glycoprotein hormones were in each instance less than 2 x 10(-4) (wt/wt). Using the RW25 RIA, virtually all beta-core immunoreactivity in pregnancy urine eluted from Sephadex G-100 in a position coincident with that of purified beta-core. Urine from men and nonpregnant women contained very low levels of beta-core immunoreactivity (less than 6.5 micrograms/L), while urine from pregnant women and patients with testicular cancer or other neoplasms had levels of beta-core immunoreactivity ranging as high as 26,000 micrograms/L. We conclude that the improved specificity of our beta- core RIA will facilitate studies of the physiology and cancer biology of beta-core molecules.


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