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Immunoassay of Growth Hormone in Cultures of Human Hypophysis by the Method of Complement Fixation: Comparison of the Growth Hormone Secretion and the Prolactin Activity

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SINCE the isolation of purified human growth hormone (H.G.H.), immunoassays of this hormone, with variable results regarding sensitivity, accuracy and reproducibility, have been reported1–3. A new approach to the immunoassay of minute amounts of human growth hormone in biological fluids was attempted by way of the well-known complement-binding method; it proved to be relatively simple, reliable and quantitatively satisfactory.

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BRAUMAN, J., BRAUMAN, H. & PASTEELS, J. Immunoassay of Growth Hormone in Cultures of Human Hypophysis by the Method of Complement Fixation: Comparison of the Growth Hormone Secretion and the Prolactin Activity. Nature 202, 1116–1118 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021116a0

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