Menotropin

Menotropin
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Menotropin (also called human menopausal gonadotropin or hMG) is a hormonally active medication for the treatment of fertility disturbances. Frequently the plural is used as the medication is a mixture of gonadotropins. Menotropins are extracted from the urine of postmenopausal women.[1]

  1. ^ van de Weijer BH, Mulders JW, Bos ES, Verhaert PD, van den Hooven HW (November 2003). "Compositional analyses of a human menopausal gonadotrophin preparation extracted from urine (menotropin). Identification of some of its major impurities". Reproductive Biomedicine Online. 7 (5): 547–557. doi:10.1016/S1472-6483(10)62071-8. PMID 14680547.