title: [Isoforms of luteinizing hormone].
abstract: Luteinizing hormone (LH) is a heterodimeric glycoprotein containing varied amount of sialic acid. This is a reason of numerous LH isoforms called also isohormones. The hormone isoforms were separated usually by gel electrophoresis, isoelectrofocusing or chromatofocusing. They differ in biological and immunological activity. Human and some animals LH isoforms were reviewed. Also some genetic mutants of LH are described. Problems of the human isoforms for pathology and diagnostics are presented.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorium Biochemii Instytutu Immunologii i Terapii Doświadczalnej PAN im. L. Hirszfelda we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szewczuk
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Kochanowska
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kurowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D007986:Luteinizing Hormone
vernacular_title: Izoformy hormonu luteinizujacego.