Drug Testing And Analysis 2012-12-01

Certification of steroid carbon isotope ratios in a freeze-dried human urine reference material.

Ellaine Munton, Fong-Ha Liu, E John Murby, D Brynn Hibbert

Index: Drug Test. Anal. 4(12) , 928-33, (2012)

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Abstract

An accurate method for the measurement of carbon isotope ratios of steroids in human urine has been developed at the National Measurement Institute, Australia (NMIA) for the certification of a freeze-dried human urine reference material (CRM NMIA MX005). The method measures δ(13)C values by gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS) analysis following hydrolysis, solvent extraction and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) purification. Reference δ(13)C values for testosterone metabolites etiocholanolone, androsterone, and endogenous reference compounds (ERCs) 11β-hydroxyandrosterone and pregnanediol were determined, as well as information δ(13)C values for testosterone, epitestosterone, 11-oxoetiocholanolone, and a range of differences (Δ(13)C) between testosterone metabolites and ERCs. The measurement uncertainty was rigorously evaluated with expanded uncertainties for the reference δ(13)C values between 1.1 and 1.6 ‰ at the 95% coverage level.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Related Compounds

  • Androsterone
  • Etiocholanolone

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