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Gonadotrophins in Human Urine

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McARTHUR1 has claimed that the urine of normally menstruating women contains luteinizing hormone as well as follicle-stimulating hormone. We have confirmed her results and used her method of assay to demonstrate that our system of adsorption chromatography for urinary gonadotrophins2 has resulted in a separation of an active fraction containing no luteinizing hormone.

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INGRAM, J., BUTT, W. & CROOKE, A. Gonadotrophins in Human Urine. Nature 173, 85–86 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173085b0

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