Choriogonadotropin

…They are also called gonadotropic hormones. In vertebrates, they include two hormones secreted from the anterior pituitary gland: follicle-stimulating hormone (abbreviated as FSH) and luteinizing hormone (abbreviated as LH) or interstitial cell-stimulating hormone (abbreviated as ICSH), and chorionic gonadotropin (abbreviated as CG, but abbreviated as hCG in humans), secreted from the placenta. Both are glycoproteins, and in humans, FSH has a molecular weight of about 35,000, while LH and hCG have a molecular weight of about 30,000. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "chorionic gonadotropin" is listed below.

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…生殖腺(性腺)刺激ホルモンともいう。脊椎動物では，脳下垂体前葉から分泌される卵胞(濾胞)刺激ホルモンfollicle‐stimulating hormone(FSHと略す)と黄体形成ホルモンluteinizing hormone(LHと略す)または間質細胞刺激ホルモンinterstitial cell‐stimulating hormone(ICSHと略す)の2種のホルモンと，胎盤から分泌される絨毛（じゆうもう）(膜)性ゴナドトロピンchorionic gonadotropin(CGと略すが，ヒトの場合はhCGと略す)が含まれる。ともに糖タンパク質で，ヒトのFSHは分子量約3万5000,LH,hCGは約3万である。…

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