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Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PA-A) in non-pregnant subjects
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb04783.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 91, Issue 5, pages 453–456, May 1984
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BERSINGER, N. and KLOER, A. (1984), Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PA-A) in non-pregnant subjects. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 91: 453–456. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb04783.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Received 18 July 1983 Accepted 14 September 1983
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A newly developed enzyme immunoassay technique was alied to the measurement of pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PA-A) in the serum of women in the proliferative and luteal phases of the cycle, in hysterectomized and postmenopausal women and in the serum and seminal plasma of males. PA-A was detected in some individuals in all the categories of women and in seminal plasma but not in male serum. It is surmised that there must be a source of PA-A other than the placenta and that PA-A may be a maternal protein whose biosynthesis is stimulated by pregnancy rather than a product peculiar to the trophoblast.