Differentiating isobaric steroid hormone metabolites using multi-stage tandem mass spectrometry

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 399-409

  Tedmon, Lauren ^a   Barnes, Jeremy S ^a   Nguyen, Hien P ^a   Schug, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrospray ionization; Estrogen; Ion trap time of flight mass spectrometry; Steroid hormone; Sulfate metabolite

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN; FRAGMENTATION PATHWAYS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ISOMERIC STRUCTURES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEROID HORMONES;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

17BETA DIHYDROEQUILIN SULFATE; DIHYDROEQUILIN; EQUILIN SULFATE; ESTRONE SULFATE; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EPIMER; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HYDROGEN BOND; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOMER; METABOLITE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; STEROID BINDING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUILIN; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); ESTRONE; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84875881818     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0542-4     Document Type: Article

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