NOUN
- hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test
How To Use HCG In A Sentence
- If the patient has a beta-hCG of > 6000 mIU / ml and there is no intrauterine gestational sac seen, it is presumptive evidence of an ectopic pregnancy.
- But a man of Manny's age -- he's 36 -- would take HCG if he's suffering from oligospermia, or a low sperm count. James Warren: This Week in Magazines: If The Economy is Driving You to Drink...
- Similarity of insulin dependent diabetics '(IDD) and non-insulin dependent diabetics' (NIDD) levels of beta-hCG and unconjugated estriol with controls: no need to adjust as with AFP. Prenatal Diagnosis
- Chicago Tribune: The long-discredited hCG diet is making a comeback thanks to hucksters & TV exposure, despite the fact that research shows the diet restriction to a near-starvation 500 calories a day, while regularly injecting human chorionic gonadotrophin has been ineffective and possibly harmful. NYT > Home Page
- Using term villous cytotrophoblast preparations, Aris and colleagues found that high levels of vitamins C (50 and 100 µM) and E (20 and 50 µM) affect placental function and immunity in standard culture conditions, as reflected by a decreased secretion of hCG and an increased production of TNF-alpha in a dose-dependent manner PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- For anyone following major league baseball who might have thought Manny Ramirez's explanation of his recently disclosed use of human chorionic gonadotrophin "a medication, not a steroid, prescribed by a physician for a personal health issue" was legitimate, allow me to point out that there is no medical indication for prescribing hCG to a male that cannot be more safely and effectively treated with other agents. Archive 2009-05-01
- Fern gametes are free-swimming and a thin film of water is required for the male gametes to travel from the antheridia into the neck of the archcgonia to fertilize the eggs.
- While regular hCG is made by fused villous syncytiotrophoblast cells, extravillous invasive cytotrophoblast cells make the variant hyperglycosylated hCG. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- When the pill is used, if there is any ovulation, it renders the egg unable to attach to the uterine wall - some of the same hormones come into play, but the major pregnancy hormone, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) does not appear until implantation and fertilization begin. The Pill kills babies!! | My[confined]Space
- Using term villous cytotrophoblast preparations, Aris and colleagues found that high levels of vitamins C (50 and 100 µM) and E (20 and 50 µM) affect placental function and immunity in standard culture conditions, as reflected by a decreased secretion of hCG and an increased production of TNF-alpha in a dose-dependent manner PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles