Published February 2011 | Version v1
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Studies on stabilities of some human chorionic gonadotropin complexes with β-emitting radionuclides

  • 1. Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064 (India)
  • 2. Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, 92 APC Road, Kolkata 700009 (India)
  • 3. Malda Town Divisional Railway Hospital, Malda 732102 (India)

Description

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a peptide hormone, whose one of the structural subunits is identical to that of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). As a consequence, the receptors of TSH also act as receptor for hCG hormone. Keeping in mind this interesting property of hCG we have studied the complex formation ability of various no-carrier-added β-emitting isotopes of 61Cu (3.3 h), 62Zn (9.2 h), 90Nb (14.60 h) and 99Mo (66.02 h) with hCG molecule. Stability of the hCG-M (M=metal ions) complexes was investigated by dialysis with respect to triple distilled water and ringer lactate solution, which has the same composition as extracellular fluid.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.11.019

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DOI
10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.11.019;
PII
S0969-8043(10)00448-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Journal Volume
69
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 316-319
ISSN
0969-8043
CODEN
ARISEF

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