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. 1965 Apr;95(1):1–16. doi: 10.1042/bj0950001

An approach to the systematic analysis of urinary steroids

E Menini 1,*, J K Norymberski 1,†
PMCID: PMC1215118  PMID: 14333557

Abstract

1. Human urine, its extracts, extracts of urine pretreated with enzyme preparations containing β-glucuronidase and steroid sulphatase or β-glucuronidase alone, and products derived from the specific solvolysis of urinary steroid sulphates, were submitted to the following sequence of operations: reduction with borohydride; oxidation with a glycol-cleaving agent (bismuthate or periodate); separation of the products into ketones and others; oxidation of each fraction with tert.-butyl chromate, resolution of the end products by means of paper chromatography or gas–liquid chromatography or both. 2. Qualitative experiments indicated the kind of information the method and some of its modifications can provide. Quantitative experiments were restricted to the direct treatment of urine by the basic procedure outlined. It was partly shown and partly argued that the quantitative results were probably as informative about the composition of the major neutral urinary steroids (and certainly about their presumptive secretory precursors) as those obtained by a number of established analytical procedures. 3. A possible extension of the scope of the reported method was indicated. 4. A simple technique was introduced for the quantitative deposition of a solid sample on to a gas–liquid-chromatographic column.

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