Determination of sulfates of androsterone and epiandrosterone in human serum using isotope diluted liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry

Biomedical Chromatography

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 796-801

  Mitamura, Kuniko ^a   Setaka, Misako ^a   Shimada, Kazutake ^a   Honma, Seijiro ^b   Namiki, Mikio ^c   Koh, Eitetsu ^c   Mizokami, Atsushi ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Grelan Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androsterone sulfate; Epiandrosterone sulfate; Human serum; Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHASE SEPARATION; UROLOGY;

ANDROSTERONE SULPHATE; DEPROTEINIZATION; EPIANDROSTERONE; EPIANDROSTERONE SULPHATE; HUMAN SERUM; INTERNAL STANDARDS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY - MASS SPECTROMETRIES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION-MASS SPECTROMETRIES; PROSTATE CANCERS; REDUCTASE ACTIVITY;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACETONITRILE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTERONE DERIVATIVE; HEXANE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROLYSIS; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; PURIFICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 29544435692     PISSN: 02693879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmc.522     Document Type: Article

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