Menotropin
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Menotropin (also called human menopausal gonadotropin or hMG) is a
Description and usage
Urine of postmenopausal women reflects the hypergonadotropic state of
Menotropin preparations are designed for use in selected women where they stimulate the ovaries to mature follicles, thus making them more fertile. They are administered by typically daily injection, intramuscularly or subcutaneously, for about ten days under close supervision to adjust dose and duration of therapy. They can also be used in hypogonadal men to stimulate sperm production.
Human urinary-derived menotropin preparations are exposed to the theoretical risk of infection from menopausal donors of urine. Nevertheless, the failure to irrefutably demonstrate infectivity following intracerebral inoculation with urine from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)-infected hosts suggests that the risk associated with products derived from urine is merely theoretical.[6]
The Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine reported:[10] “Compared with earlier crude animal extracts, modern highly purified urinary and recombinant gonadotropin products have clearly superior quality, specific activity, and performance. There are no confirmed differences in safety, purity, or clinical efficacy among the various available urinary or recombinant gonadotropin products.”
List of hMG preparations
A number of drug companies have and had marketed hMG preparations that include:[11]
- Gynogen HP (Sanzyme (P) Limited)
- Highly purified urinary FSH and LH in 1:1 ratio
- Humog (Bharat Serums And Vaccines Ltd)
- highly purified urinary FSH and LH in 1:1 ratio
- Humegon (Organon)
- Menopur (Ferring Pharmaceuticals), 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH activity
- Merional, Meriofert (IBSA Institut)
- Menogon
- Metrodin (Serono)
- highly purified urinary FSH
- Repronex(Ferring Pharmaceuticals), 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH
- Pergonal (Serono),
- Pergonal was the major hMG prior to the arrival of recombinant gonadotropins containing 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH.
- HMG Massone, 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH
See also
References
- ^ PMID 14680547.
- ^ Menotropins at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ^ TheFreeDictionary > Menotropin Citing: Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. 2007
- ^ PMID 15388674.
- ^ Unknown. "Serono goes recombinant". Serono Laboratories, 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
- PMID 12351519.
- PMID 9513843.
- PMID 11726575.
- PMID 21328276.
- PMID 19007609.)
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