Stability and biological activities of heterodimeric and single-chain equine LH/chorionic gonadotropin variants.

Long-term exposure of male rats to low-dose ethinylestradiol (EE2) in drinking water: effects on ponderal growth and on litter size of their progeny.

Nitro-thiocyanobenzoic acid (NTCB) reactivity of cysteines beta100 and beta110 in porcine luteinizing hormone: metastability and hypothetical isomerization of the two disulfide bridges of its beta-subunit seatbelt.

Involvement of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) carbohydrate side chains in its bioactivity; lessons from recombinant hormone expressed in insect cells.

Mammalian-like nonsialyl complex-type N-glycosylation of equine gonadotropins in Mimic insect cells.

Biological activities of recombinant equine luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin (eLH/CG) expressed in Sf9 and Mimic insect cell lines.

Cloning and functional expression of the equine luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotrophin receptor.

Association/dissociation of gonadotropin subunits involves disulfide bridge disruption which is influenced by carbohydrate moiety.

Expression of the full-length and alternatively spliced equine luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor mRNAs in the primary corpus luteum and fetal gonads during pregnancy.

Identification of amino-acids in the alpha-subunit first and third loops that are crucial for the heterospecific follicle-stimulating hormone activity of equid luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin.

Overexpression of ovine leptin in Pichia pastoris: physiological yeast response to leptin production and characterization of the recombinant hormone.

Fast renal trapping of porcine luteinizing hormone (pLH) shown by 123I-scintigraphic imaging in rats explains its short circulatory half-life.

Induced lactation with a dopamine antagonist in mares: different responses between ovariectomized and intact mares.

Expression and binding activity of luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptors in the primary corpus luteum during early pregnancy in the mare.

Activin signaling pathways in ovine pituitary and LbetaT2 gonadotrope cells.

Conformational stability and in vitro bioactivity of porcine luteinizing hormone.

beta-Subunit 102-104 residues are crucial to confer FSH activity to equine LH/CG but are not sufficient to confer FSH activity to human CG.

Stimulating effect of glycoprotein hormone free alpha-subunit and daily gonadotropin releasing hormone treatment on prolactin release from 50-day ovine foetal pituitary explants.

Expression of an in vitro biologically active equine LH/CG without C-terminal peptide (CTP) and/or beta26-110 disulphide bridge.

Human chorionic gonadotropin with C-elongated alpha-subunit retains full receptor binding and partial agonist activity.

The cysteine-rich domain of the macrophage mannose receptor is a multispecific lectin that recognizes chondroitin sulfates A and B and sulfated oligosaccharides of blood group Lewis(a) and Lewis(x) types in addition to the sulfated N-glycans of lutropin.

Two free isoforms of ovine glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit strongly differ in their ability to stimulate prolactin release from foetal pituitaries.

Involvement of G protein-coupled receptor kinases and arrestins in desensitization to follicle-stimulating hormone action.

Humoral immune response to equine chorionic gonadotropin in ewes: association with major histocompatibility complex and interference with subsequent fertility.

Cloning, sequencing and functional expression of zebra (Equus burchelli) LH.

The negative effect of repeated equine chorionic gonadotropin treatment on subsequent fertility in Alpine goats is due to a humoral immune response involving the major histocompatibility complex.

Beta2 adrenergic receptors mediate cAMP, tissue-type plasminogen activator and transferrin production in rat Sertoli cells.

International collaborative calibration of a preparation of equine chorionic gonadotrophin (eCG NZY-01) proposed as a new standard.

High-level secretion of biologically active recombinant porcine follicle-stimulating hormone by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris.

Mammalian follicle-stimulating hormone receptors and their ligands.

Deterioration of goat spermatozoa in skimmed milk-based extenders as a result of oleic acid released by the bulbourethral lipase BUSgp60.

Evidence that the alpha-subunit influences the specificity of receptor binding of the equine gonadotrophins.

Deterioration of goat sperm viability in milk extenders is due to a bulbourethral 60-kilodalton glycoprotein with triglyceride lipase activity.

Binding of rat and ovine epididymis-specific prealbumins (PES) to rat spermatozoa without effect of heterologous immunization on rat fertility.

Cloning, sequencing and in vitro functional expression of recombinant donkey follicle-stimulating hormone receptor: a new insight into the binding specificity of gonadotrophin receptors.

[Application prospects of structure-function studies of gonadotropins]

Expression of horse and donkey LH in COS-7 cells: evidence for low FSH activity in donkey LH compared with horse LH.

Effect of indole-3-acetic acid (plant auxin) on the preservation at 15 degrees C of boar semen for artificial insemination.

The relative protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) activities of gonadotrophins, thioredoxin and PDI.

[Autoimmune asthenospermia induced by an epididymal protein, ovine prealbumin (oPES)]

Role of sialic acid residues in the in vitro superactivity of human choriogonadotropin (hCG) in rat Leydig cells.

Protein kinases and protein synthesis are involved in desensitization of the plasminogen activator response of rat Sertoli cells by follicle-stimulating hormone.

Structure-function relationships and mechanism of action of pituitary and placental gonadotrophins.

[Binding specificity and stimulation efficacy of gonadotropins]

Induction of ovulation and superovulation in mares using equine LH and FSH separated by hydrophobic interaction chromatography.

Involvement of cyclic adenosine monophosphate-dependent protein kinase isozymes in tissue plasminogen activator secretion by rat Sertoli cells stimulated with follicle-stimulating hormone in vitro.

Topography of equine chorionic gonadotropin epitopes relative to the luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor interaction sites.

Molecular basis of the specificity of binding of glycoprotein hormones to their receptors.

Immunochemical study of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG/PMSG): antigenic determinants on alpha- and beta-subunits.

Characterization of human follicle-stimulating hormone binding to human granulosa cells by an immunoenzymological method.

Purification of ovine transferrin and study of the hormonal control of its secretion in enriched cultures of ovine Sertoli cells.

Enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for equine chorionic gonadotropin/pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (eCG/PMSG).

Development of radioimmunoassay and enzyme immunoassays for luteinizing hormone in dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius).

Equine follicle-stimulating hormone action in cultured Sertoli cells from rat, sheep and pig.

Determination of the primary and secondary structures of the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) prolactin and comparison with prolactins from other species.

Purification and partial characterization of growth hormone from the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius).

Purification and characterization of glycosylated and non-glycosylated forms of prolactin from the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius).

N-terminal amino-sequencing of camel (Camelus dromedarius) luteinizing-hormone alpha and beta-subunits.

Structure and structure-function relationships in gonadotropins.

Purification and characterization of luteinizing hormone from the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius).

Comparison of two reference preparations for horse chorionic gonadotrophin in four in-vivo and in-vitro assays.

Alternative solutions to hCG induction of ovulation in the mare.

Homologous desensitization of rat Sertoli cells by non-stimulating concentrations of follicle-stimulating hormone.

Study of the superactivity of equine follicle-stimulating hormone in in vitro stimulation of rat Sertoli cells.

Functional states of the luteinizing hormone/choriogonadotropin-receptor complex in rat Leydig cells.

Rapid in vitro desensitization of the testosterone response in rat Leydig cells by sub-active concentrations of porcine luteinizing hormone.

Induction of pituitary lactotrope differentiation by luteinizing hormone alpha subunit.

Comparison of in vitro follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) activity of equine gonadotropins (luteinizing hormone, FSH, and chorionic gonadotropin) in male and female rats.

Reevaluation of lipolytic activity of growth hormone in rabbit adipocytes.

Highly specific antisera against native ovine follitropin (oFSH) obtained from crude antisera by affinity chromatography on solid-phase undissociable lutropin (LH) column.

[Origin of the FSH + LH double activity of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG/PMSG)]

The release of plasminogen activator by rat granulosa cells is highly specific for FSH activity.

Purification of equine gonadotropins and comparative study of their acid-dissociation and receptor-binding specificity.

Head-to-head agglutination of ram and boar epididymal spermatozoa and evidence for an epididymal antagglutinin.

[Role of seminal plasma in the in vitro survival of goat sperm]

[Original hypothesis on the specificity of the binding of glycoprotein hormones to their receptors]

Equine follicle-stimulating hormone. Purification, acid dissociation, and binding to equine testicular tissue.

Conformational study of native and acid-dissociated states of porcine lutropin (pLH) by vacuum circular dichroism and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy.

Physico-chemical properties of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin.

Porcine lutropin: a study of the association of its subunits by hydrogen-deuterium exchange.

Pregnant mare serum gonadotropin exhibits higher affinity for lutropin than for follitropin receptors of porcine testis.

Study of follitropin receptors in testis using a homologous system. Binding of porcine follitropin to plasma membranes from immature porcine testis and correlation with adenylate cyclase stimulation.

Chemical study of the topography of porcine lutropin (LH) using dinitrofluorobenzene and dansyl chloride.

Proceedings: The three-dimensional structure of luteinizing hormone: "exposure probabilities" of its polypeptide portions.

Proceedings: Binding of luteinizing hormone to functional collagenase-isolated testicular interstitial cells.

Luteinizing hormone derivatives with covalently-linked subunits.

Luteinizing hormone. I. Circular dichroism and spectrophotometric titration of porcine and bovine hormones and of their alpha and beta subunits.

Luteinizing hormone. 2. Relative reactivities of tyrosyl residues of the porcine hormone towards iodination.

Proceedings: The disulphide bridges of porcine luteinizing hormone alpha subunit.

The primary structure of the porcine luteinizing-hormone alpha-subunit.

[Primary structure of the subunits of luteinizing hormone (LH); a comparison of amino acid sequence of the alpha and beta chains of LH of ovine, bovine, procine and human origin]

Porcine luteinizing hormone. The amino acid sequence of the alpha subunit.

Role of a regulating protein and molecular oxygen in the mechanism of action of luteinizing hormone.