Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a polypeptide hormone produced by the human placenta. Endogenously produced HCG interacts with the LHCG receptor of the ovary and promotes the maintenance of the corpus luteum during the beginning of pregnancy. This allows the corpus luteum to continuously secrete the hormone progesterone during the first trimester, which ...
For the treatment of prepubertal cryptorchidism (not due to anatomical obstruction), for the treatment of selected cases of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (hypogonadism secondary to a pituitary deficiency) in males and for the induction of ovulation and pregnancy in the anovulatory, infertile woman in whom the cause of anovulation is secondary and not due to ...
University of Washington Medical Center (Health Sciences), Seattle, Washington, United States
Centre of Reproductive Medicine CRG, Jette, Brussels, Belgium
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Center for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
The Fertility Clinic, Regional Hospital of Skive, Skive, Denmark
Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States
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