Plasma steroid level measured using modern separation techniques as biomarkers in biological diagnostics

Current Pharmaceutical Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 164-181

  Konieczna, Lucyna ^a   Baczek, Tomasz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Biomedical diagnostics; Plasma; Separation techniques; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CAPILLARY ELECTROCHROMATOGRAPHY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CAPILLARY ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; CAPILLARY ISOTACHOPHORESIS; CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; IMMUNOASSAY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MICELLAR ELECTROKINETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 77958064012     PISSN: 15734129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341210791936786     Document Type: Article

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