Who Expert Committee on Biological Standardization

Book : Who Expert Committee on Biological Standardization

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : Geneva

ISBN : 92 4 120565 2

Publish Date : 00 1975

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Report

Book Number : 3606

INDEX


CONTENTS
General
part I. international standards and international reference preparations
1. Human urinary gonadotrophins ....................
2. Insulin ...............................
3. Calcitonins .............................
4. Parathyroid hormone .........................
5. Rerun and angiotensins ........................
6. Human chorionic gonadotrophin and its subunits.............
7. Human pituitary gonadotrophins: FSH and LH(ICSH), for bioassay
8. Human pituitary luteinizing hormone (LH(ICSH) ), for immunoassay . . .
9. Human pituitary follicle stimulating hormone (FSH,for immunoassay . . .
10. Human thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) ...............
11. Subunits of human glycoprotein hormones, FSH, LH(ICSH), and TSH . .
12. Human placental lactogen .......................
13. Human insulin ............................
14. Human oxytocin and human vasopressin ................
15. Gastrointestinal hormones .......................
16. Releasing hormones and release-inhibiting hormones ...........
17. Other hormones ...........................
part II. quality control of materials used in assays
18. Recommendations for the assessment of assay systems ..........
19. National assay service .........................
20. Recurring problems in the standardization of hormones for bioassays and bindiag assays ............................
annexes
Annex 1. Recommendations for the assessment of binding-assay systems (including
immunoassay and receptor assay systems) for human hormones and their
binding proteins (A guide to the formulation of requirements for reagents
and assay kits for the above assays and notes on cytochemical bioassay
systems)
Annex 2. Development of national assay services for hormones and other sub-stances in community health care .................
Annex 3.Requirements tot biological substances and other sets of recommenda­tions.............................