Simultaneous measurement of endogenous cortisol, cortisone, dehydroepiandrosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in nails by use of UPLC-MS-MS

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 401, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1153-1162

  Ben Khelil, Mehdi ^a   Tegethoff, Marion ^b,c   Meinlschmidt, Gunther ^b,d   Jamey, Carole ^a   Ludes, Bertrand ^a   Raul, Jean Sébastien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE MÉDECINE LÉGALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^d National Centre of Competence in Research Swiss Etiological Study of Adjustment and Mental Health   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Keratin tissue; Steroid; Ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC MS MS)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; CALIBRATION CURVES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HORMONE CONCENTRATION; HUMAN NAILS; HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; IMMUNOASSAY TECHNIQUES; INTER-ASSAY PRECISION; KERATIN TISSUE; LC-MS-MS; LIMITS OF DETECTION; LIMITS OF QUANTIFICATION; MATRIX EFFECTS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; RELATIVE ERRORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STEROID; STEROID HORMONE; ULTRA-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY (UPLC-MS-MS);

HORMONES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

CORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NAIL;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CORTISONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAILS; STEROIDS;

EID: 80052559070     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-011-5172-3     Document Type: Article

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