Recent advances in the assessment of the ratios of cortisol to cortisone and of some of their metabolites in urine by LC-MS-MS

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 541-548

  Saba, Alessandro ^a   Raffaeiii, Andrea ^a,b   Cupisti, Adamasco ^a   Petri, Antonella ^a   Marcocci, Claudio ^a   Saivadori, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrospray ionization; Metabolism; SPE; Steroids; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; CALIBRATION CURVES; CALIBRATION SOLUTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION; HPLC-MS-MS; IMPROVED METHODS; LC-MS-MS; MATRIX; PURE WATER; REAL SAMPLES; RESPONSE FACTOR; SAMPLE CLEAN-UP; SOLID-PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SPE; STEROIDS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TETRAHYDROCORTISOL;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY FLUIDS; CALIBRATION; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; IONIZATION; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EXTRACTION;

ALLOTETRAHYDROCORTISOL; CORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; TETRAHYDROCORTISOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; URINE;

ADULT; AGED; CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CORTISONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649123439     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1530     Document Type: Article

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