Early detection of pregnancy in rhesus and stump-tailed macaques (Macaca mulatta and Macaca arctoides). Evaluation of two radioimmunoassays and a hemagglutination inhibition test.
Chorionic gonadotropin (mCG) in serum and urine of monkeys was determined by a radioimmunoassay and hemagglutination inhibition (HAI subhuman primate tube test for pregnancy). HAI-positive pregnancy tests coincided fully with the mCG excretion patterns as determined by RIA (oLH beta system). The least reliable system was the hCG-beta RIA. The HAI test allowed accurate prediction of the parturition date.
D000818:Animals; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests / Q000662:veterinary; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D008253:Macaca mulatta / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011259:Pregnancy Tests, Immunologic / Q000662:veterinary*; D011270:Pregnancy, Animal; D011863:Radioimmunoassay / Q000662:veterinary
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin