IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO PEPTIDES

摘要

A new peptide, urinary gonadotrophin peptide, (UGP) has been isolated from hCG from pregnancy urine. UGP dissociates into three fragments, two of which are new peptides while the third is substantially identical to the beta core fragment of hCG. UGP and antibodies to it are useful as diagnostics for various forms of neoplasia and pre-clinical neoplasia and are also useful as tumour markers and in antibody localisation.