“…This pregnancy-associated \g=a\-macroglobulin(PAM) is not unique to pregnancy and its concentration has been determined in the serum of subjects with a variety of conditions (Stimson, 1973a(Stimson, , 1974. Treatment of both males and females with oestrogens results in elevations in the PAM serum level (Horne & co-authors, 1973; Berne, 1973;Stimson, 1974), but it is not involved in steroid transport (Stimson, 1973b;Bohn & Kranz, 1973;Von Schoultz, Stigbrand, Carstenson, Sodergard & Shanbhag, 1973). Recent investigations have shown that peripheral blood leucocytes are capable of synthesizing PAM but that lymphocytes are not the cell type responsible (Stimson & Blackstock, 1975).…”