Urinary testosterone (T) to epitestosterone (E) ratios by GC/MS. I. Initial comparison of uncorrected T/E in six international laboratories

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 397-402

  Catlin, D H ^a,b   Cowan, D A ^a,c   De La Torre, R ^a,d   Donike, M ^a,e   Fraisse, D ^a,f   Oftebro, H ^a,g   Hatton, C K ^a,b   Starcevic, B ^a,b   Becchi, M ^a,f   De La Torre, X ^a,d   Norli, H ^a,g   Geyer, H ^a,e   Walker, C J ^a,c  

^a Intl Fed of Clinical Chemistry

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^e GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anabolic steroids; Cooperative study; Doping; Epitestosterone; Mass spectrometry; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; EPITESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; DOPING; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTRUMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE; URINALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOPING IN SPORTS; EPITESTOSTERONE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LABORATORIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0029878633     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9888(199604)31:4<397::AID-JMS316>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Review

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