Neuroactive steroids, their precursors, and polar conjugates during parturition and postpartum in maternal and umbilical blood: 1. Identification and simultaneous determination of pregnanolone isomers

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 237-244

  Hill, Martin ^a   Pařízek, Antonín ^b   Bičíková, Marie ^a   Havlíková, Helena ^a   Klak, Jan ^a   Fait, Tomáš ^b   Cibula, David ^b   Hampl, Richard ^a   Čegan, Alexander ^c   Šulcová, Jarmila ^a   Stárka, Luboslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Epipregnanolone; GC MS; Human parturition; Maternal serum; Polar conjugates; Pregnanolone isomers; Umbilical serum

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 3BETA HYDROXY 5BETA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ELTANOLONE; ISOPREGNANOLONE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZATION; ISOMER; MATERNAL BLOOD; PUERPERIUM; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; SULFATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANOLONE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0034739778     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0760(00)00192-8     Document Type: Article

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