Peripheral neuroactive steroids may be as good as the steroids in the cerebrospinal fluid for the diagnostics of CNS disturbances

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 35-44

  Kancheva, Radmila ^a   Hill, Martin ^a   Novák, Zdeněk ^b   Chrastina, Jan ^b   Velíková, Marta ^a   Kancheva, Lyudmila ^a   Říha, Ivo ^b   Stárka, Luboslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); GC MS; Metabolome; Plasma; Steroids

Indexed keywords

16ALPHA DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; 16ALPHA PREGNENOLONE; 16ALPHA PROGESTERONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 5 ANDROSTENE 3BETA 7ALPHA 17BETA TRIOL; 5 ANDROSTENE 3BETA 7BETA 17BETA TRIOL; 7BETA DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIOL; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANDROSTERONE; ELTANOLONE; EPIANDROSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOPREGNANOLONE; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CALIBRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIBRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEROIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749136603     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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