Ciba Foundation Symposium - Estimation of Steroid Hormones (Book I of Colloquia on Endocrinology), Volume II

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Ciba Foundation Symposium - Estimation of Steroid Hormones (Book I of Colloquia on Endocrinology), Volume II

Editor(s): G. E. W. Wolstenholme

Published Online: 30 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9780470722206

Online ISBN: 9780470718773

DOI: 10.1002/9780470718773

About this Book

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xix)

  2. Part I: Urinary Metabolites of Progesterone

    1. Chapter 1

      Progesterone Metabolism a Review (pages 1–11)

      Eleanor H. Venning

    2. Chapter 2

      Chemistry and Estimation of Urinary Progesterone Metabolites and Related C21 Steroids (pages 12–22)

      William H. Pearlman

    3. Chapter 3

      On the Significance of the Chemical Estimation of Compounds Related to Progesterone (pages 23–37)

      Henry S. Guterman

    4. Chapter 4

      The Quantitative Determination of Urinary Pregnanediol (pages 38–44)

      Ian F. Sommerville

    5. Chapter 5

      The Chromatographic Method for the Determination of Urinary Pregnanediol (pages 45–57)

      R. Borth

  3. Part II: Urinary Œstrogens

    1. Chapter 6

      Chemistry and Estimation of Urinary Œstrogens (pages 58–71)

      Robert W. Bates

    2. Chapter 7

      The Extraction and, Purification of Urinary Œstrogens (pages 72–83)

      W. S. Bauld

    3. Chapter 8

      The Excretion and Measurement of Urinary Phenolsteroids (pages 84–103)

      M. F. Jayle and O. Crépy

    4. Chapter 9

      The Application of Counter-Current Distribution to the Separation and Characterization of Urinary Œstrogens (pages 104–116)

      Lewis L. Engel, Wilson R. Slaunwhite, Priscilla Carter, Polly C. Olmsted and Ira T. Nathanson

    5. Chapter 10

      Quantitative Fluorimetric Determination of Œstrogens (pages 112–117)

      Robert W. Bates

    6. Chapter 11

      Fluorimetric Methods for the Estimation of Œstrogen (pages 123–131)

      Lewis L. Engel, Wilson R. Slaunwhite, Priscilla Carter, Gladys Ekman, Polly C. Olmsted and Ira T. Nathanson

    7. Chapter 12

      Mechanism of the Kober Reaction (pages 132–145)

      J. B. Brown

    8. Chapter 13

      Bioassay of Œstrogens (pages 146–149)

      Ralph I. Dorfman, Betty L. Rubin, Adeline S. Dorfhan and Lila Black

    9. Chapter 14

      The Metabolism of Radioactive Iodo-Œstradiol-17β and Œstrone (pages 150–159)

      C. P. Leblond

  4. Part III: Urinary Corticoids and 17-Ketosteroids

    1. Chapter 15

      Androgens, 17-Ketosteroids and Corticoids in Urine (pages 160–170)

      Ralph I. Dorfman

    2. Chapter 16

      Biological and Chemical Estimation of Urinary Corticoids (pages 171–178)

      Eleanor H. Venning

    3. Chapter 17

      The Inadequacy of Biological Differentiation of So-Called “Mineralo‒ and Carbohydrate Corticoids” (pages 179–185)

      F. Verzár

    4. Chapter 18

      Some Observations on the Formaldehydogenic Adrenocortical Steroids of Human Urine (pages 186–195)

      J. Y. F. Paterson

    5. Chapter 19

      Pregnancy Toxæmia as a Disease of Adaptation (pages 196–207)

      A. M. Hain

  5. Part IV: Steroid Estimation in Body Fluids

    1. Chapter 20

      Methodology of Steroid Isolation (pages 208–215)

      K. Dobriner and S. Lieberman

    2. Chapter 21

      The Estimation of Progesterone in Blood (pages 216–223)

      C. J. O. R. Morris

    3. Chapter 22

      The Detection and Estimation of αβ-Unsaturated Ketones and Progesterone Metabolites in Placental Extracts and in Pregnancy Bile (pages 224–230)

      William H. Pearlman

    4. Chapter 23

      Chairman's Closing Remarks (pages 231–234)

      S. J. Folley

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