We present the first interferometric evidence of CO (1–0) emission in the intragroup starburst (IGS) region of HCG 92 (Stephan’s Quintet). BIMA’s large primary beam fully covers both the IGS region and the dominant group member Seyfert galaxy NGC 7319, as well as partially covering the intruder galaxy NGC 7318B. CO emission of *4 j is detected in all of them. The detection of the CO emission as...

OBJECTIVE To determine the predictive factors for pregnancy after IUI. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING A single university medical center. PATIENT(S) One thousand thirty-eight IUI cycles in 353 couples were studied between 2002 and 2005. INTERVENTION(S) Ovarian stimulation via SC injection of FSH or hMG was performed daily; IUI was then performed 36 hours after triggering ovulation ...

Research suggests that a Motorcycle Autonomous Emergency Braking system (MAEB) could influence 25% of the crashes involving powered two wheelers (PTWs). By automatically slowing down a host PTW of up to 10 km/h in inevitable collision scenarios, MAEB could potentially mitigate the crash severity for the riders. The feasibility of automatic decelerations of motorcycles was shown via field trials...

Ovulation is a gonadotropin-controlled process that is essential for the propagation of all mammalian species. In the present study, we used a pregnant mare serum gonodotropin/human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-induced, synchronized ovulation model in rhesus monkeys and systematically investigated the roles of the plasminogen activator (PA) system in the ovulatory process of the primate. At dif...

The pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is also present at low concentrations in plasma and urine of men and nonpregnant women. hCG immunoreactivity occurs in various molecular forms: Besides the intact hCG heterodimer, considerable amounts of proteolytically cleaved forms, free subunits, and fragments are found in plasma and urine. Especially in urine, proteolytic fragments co...

A photoaffinity derivative of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-4-azidobenzoate (hCG-HSAB) ) was used to identify components of the lutropin (LH)/hCG receptor in plasma membranes prepared from pregnant mare serum-pretreated rat ovaries. In intact plasma membranes, the Kd for hCG (1 X 10(-10) M) was the same with both 125I-hCG and 125I-hCG-HSAB, and the binding capacity for...

The nature of the substance with thyroid-stimulating activity (TSA) present in human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) prepared from pregnancy urine was investigated. In the mouse thyrotropin bioassay, the characteristic maximum of blood radioactivity obtained with the TSA in hCG preparations occurred after that obtained with pituitary thyrotropin (hTSH) but before that obtained with long-acting thy...

Testosterone is produced in male rats by the action of luteinizing hormone (LH), an anterior pituitary hormone which interacts with receptors on Leydig cells (testes) to activate adenylate cyclase. A most frequently used agonist for LH is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone synthesized by the placenta during the early stages of pregnancy. Like LH, it is a heterodimer consisting of two...

OBJECTIVE To compare serum human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) titers using 2 commercially available hCG immunoassays in patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). STUDY DESIGN A total of 213 serum samples from 39 patients with uneventful moles and 697 serum samples from 17 patients with low-risk and high-risk GTN were obtained and subsequently measured with both the hCG C-termin...

This paper examines a metaphonic chain shift in Servigliano (Italo-Romance), in which /E, O/ raise to [e, o] and /e, o/ raise to [i, u] when stressed and followed by inflectional /i, u/. The paper also explores pre-tonic metaphony, whereby /E, O/ raise all the way up to [i, u] when followed by a stressed high vowel. First, an analysis of the data is developed using Optimality Theory with Candid...