FEMALE PROTEIN OF SYRIAN HAMSTER: A SERUM PENTRAXIN NOT PREGNANCY SPECIFIC, BUT UNDER SEX STEROID AND ACUTE PHASE CONTROL

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE V
3. CONTENTS VII
4. COMPARATIVE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF THE MAMMALIAN PLACENTA 1
5. PREGNANCY PROTEINS IN THE HUMAN - BIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE 9
6. CLINICAL ASPECTS OF PLACENTAL PROTEIN MEASUREMENTS IN EARLY PREGNANCY AND ITS COMPLICATIONS 21
7. “NORMAL” PLASMA PROTEINS DURING PREGNANCY 29
8. PLACENTAL PROTEINS IN THREATENED ABORTION 31
9. CARBOHYDRATE MICROHETEROGENEITY OF MATERNAL SERUM AFP IN PREGNANCY 41
10. PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF A SPECIFIC QUANTITATIVE IMMUNOASSAY FOR ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN AMNIOTIC FLUID 49
11. CHANGING PATTERNS OF MICROHETEROGENEITY OF HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN (hCG) DURING NORMAL PREGNANCY AND TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE 59
12. USE OF ONCODEVELOPMENTAL PROTEINS IN DIAGNOSIS AND MONITORING OF TESTICULAR CANCERS 69
13. ESTROGEN, GROWTH HORMONE AND PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS 83
14. STUDIES ON THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF HUMAN PREGNANCY ZONE PROTEIN, A CLOSE HOMOLOG OF HUMAN a2-MACROGLOBULIN 91
15. IMMUNOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED a2-GLYCOPROTEIN AND a2-MACROGLOBULIN AS DEFINED BY POLY- AND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES 113
16. THE MAJOR SOURCE OF PLACENTAL PROTEIN 12 IS DECIDUA/ENDOMETRIUM 123
17. PROGESTAGEN-ASSOCIATED ENDOMETRIAL PROTEIN: DETECTION AND BINDING IN IMMATURE HUMAN PLACENTA 131
18. SECRETORY PROTEINS OF THE HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM AND DECIDUA DURING MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND PREGNANCY: CHARACTERIZATION OF PREGNANCYASSOCIATED ENDOMETRIAL a1- AND a2-GLOBOLINS (a1- AND a2-PEG) 143
19. PLACENTAL PROTEIN 14 (PP14) IN THE HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TRACT 165
20. HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL PROTEINS : NEWS AND VIEWS 173
21. PREGNANCY-RELATED CHANGES IN MURINE AND HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM REVEALED BY DIFFERENTIAL BINDING OF FLUORESCEINATED LECTINS 177
22. THE ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE IN HEALTHY PREGNANT WOMEN AND IN PREGNANT PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASE 185
23. PREGNANCY PROTEINS AND THE ACUTE-PHASE RESPONSE 195
24. CANINE PREGNANCY ZONE PROTEIN, AN ACUTE PHASE REACTANT IN DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE? 213
25. FEMALE PROTEIN OF SYRIAN HAMSTER: A SERUM PENTRAXIN NOT PREGNANCY SPECIFIC, BUT UNDER SEX STEROID AND ACUTE PHASE CONTROL 217
26. COMPARATIVE EARLY PREGNANCY ENDOCRINOLOGY AND EMBRYO MATERNAL INTERACTIONS IN MAMMALS 223
27. THE ROLE OF BLOOD PLATELETS IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PREGNANCY 225
28. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACENTAL ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE AS A PREGNANCY RELATED PROTEIN IN MAN AND ANIMALS 235
29. NEW PREGNANCY RELATED PROTEINS IN HUMANS AND THEIR ANALOGUES IN ANIMALS 247
30. EVOLUTION OF PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A 269
31. STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MACROGLOBULIN INHIBITORS FROM DIFFERENT MAMMALIAN SPECIES 281
32. MODIFICATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF MURINE ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN AND HUMAN SEX BINDING PROTEIN BY NON ESTERIFIED FATTY ACIDS 291
33. TRANSCORTIN ACTIVITY DURING PREGNANCY 305
34. REPRODUCTION SPECIFIC VITAMIN CARRIER PROTEINS INVOLVED IN TRANSPLACENTAL VITAMIN TRANSPORT IN MAMMALS INCLUDING PRIMATES 317
35. PROGESTERONE-BINDING GLOBULIN FROM PREGNANT GUINEA PIG SERUM: IMPROVED PURIFICATION PROCEDURE AND COMPARISON WITH OTHER STEROID BINDING PROTEINS 331
36. BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PROGESTERONE-BINDING GLOBULIN IN THE GUINEA PIG 341
37. PREGNANCY INTERRUPTION BY A MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY THAT RECOGNIZES NON-T SUPPRESSOR CELLS IN MATERNAL LYMPHOID TISSUE 351
38. TISSUE-SPECIFIC REGULATION OF GAMMA FETAL ANTIGEN EXPRESSION DURING MURINE DEVELOPMENT 361
39. PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED ʆ2-GLYCOPROTEIN ANALOGUES IN MONKEY AND DOG 371
40. TISSUE AND CELLULAR SITES OF PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED ALPHA2 GLYCOPROTEIN (a2 PAG) SYNTHESIS IN PREGNANT RATS 379
41. ISOLATION, QUANTITATION AND SOME PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF A PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN (PAG) IN THE RAT 389
42. STUDIES ON MURINE a1-PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN (a1-PAP) AND ITS RAT ANALOGUE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN a2-PAG 415
43. IMMUNOASSAY AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL LOCALIZATION OF MURINE PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN (a1-PAP) IN VIRGIN AND PREGNANT MICE: STUDIES ON ‚LOW‘ AND ‚HIGH‘ ENDOGENOUS STRAINS 429
44. ANIMAL PROTEINS IMMUNOLOGICALLY CROSS-REACTING WITH HUMAN PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED a2 -GLYCOPROTEIN (PZP, a2PAG, PAa2G) 445
45. PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC BETA1-GLYCOPROTEIN IN RAT (RPG)s ISOLATION, PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND IMMUNOLOGIC STUDY 453
46. MURINE MODELS TO HUMAN PREGNANCY SPECIFIC ß1-GLYCOPROTEIN AND a-FETOPROTEIN AND THEIR APPLICATION IN TERATOGENIC STUDIES 465
47. EFFECT OF SEX STEROIDS AND TROPHOBLAST CULTURE SUPERNATANTS ON THE CYTOTOXIC T-CELL ACTIVITY IN MICE 481
48. IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF) OF CATTLE OOCYTES - AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE LH-SURGE, CUMULUS EXPANSION AND IN VITRO INSEMINATION TIME 493
49. STUDIES ON EARLY PREGNANCY FACTOR (EPF) IN THE PIG 501
50. PLACENTAL LACTOGEN AND OTHER PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC PROTEINS IN FARM ANIMALS 505
51. PREGNANCY DETECTION IN FARM ANIMALS BY RADIOIMMUNOASSAY OF A PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC PROTEIN IN SERUM 511
52. SUBJECT INDEX 519
53. AUTHOR INDEX 531
54. Backmatter 537