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FOLLICLE-STIMULATING and interstitial cell-stimulating hormones can be extracted from animal pituitary glands; but there is little evidence that two such substances can be separated from human urine. Walter1 suggests that separation is possible, and recent evidence2 is claimed to show that the levels of the two hormones in human urine vary independently. This evidence was obtained by using two assays simultaneously: one assay is believed to measure the combined effect of both hormones and the other to measure the follicle-stimulating hormone alone3. The two assays have now been used for investigating the fractionation of human urinary gonadotrophins.
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BROWN, P. Fractionation of Human Urinary Gonadotrophins. Nature 178, 315–316 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178315a0
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