TY - JOUR
AU - OESTERLING, M., JANE
AB - Abstract SEVERAL years ago Callow and Callow (1) demonstrated that the microchemieal determination of 17-ketosteroids could yield valuable information regarding endocrine function in man and other animals. This finding has since been substantiated in many other laboratories (2–6). Nevertheless, considerable opposition to the procedure was raised originally on the grounds that: (a) the urinary 17-ketosteroids constitute a mixture; (b) their value is considerably higher than a biologically equivalent amount of androsterone; and (c) they vary with changes in both testicular and adrenal function. Similar objections can be raised with respect to urinary components related to estradiol. Degradation products of estradiol in urine Like testosterone, estradiol is converted within the human organism into degradation products of lower biological potency. The best known of such degradation compounds in the female are estrone and estriol (6). Smith and Smith (7) have also concentrated from human urine a substance which tentatively they regard as a lactone. Furthermore, in animals even after oöphorectomy certain estrogenic effects can be detected, especially in the presence of adrenal hyperplasia (8). Evidence is accumulating that these effects are due to materials which resemble estradiol chemically (9). Under appropriate chemical conditions all of these substances, as isolated from urine, give color reactions similar to estradiol. In the present paper the term “urinary estroids” is used to signify a mixture of steroids which, after extraction from urine and appropriate partial purification, can be estimated microchemically in terms of estradiol equivalents. This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes * This study was aided by the Navy Grant N6ori-44 Task Order VI, the National Cancer Institute Grant No. C-290, the Connecticut Cancer Society Grant, the Donner Foundation, the Fluid Research Fund of Yale University and a Grant from Schering Corporation. For the pure steroids used as standards we are indebted to Dr. Seymour Lieberman of Memorial Hospital, New York City, to Dr. F. E. Houghton of Ciba Pharmaceutical Products Inc., to Dr. Edward L. Henderson of Schering Corporation and to Dr. Kenneth Thompson of Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. Copyright © 1948 by The Endocrine Society
TI - ANALOGIES BETWEEN URINARY 17-KETOSTEROIDS AND URINARY “ESTROIDS,” AS DETERMINED MICROCHEMICALLY
JO - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
DO - 10.1210/jcem-8-4-295
DA - 1948-04-01
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SP - 295
EP - 314
VL - 8
IS - 4
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