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Quantitation of Steroid Hormones in Thin Fresh Frozen Tissue Sections
Analytical Chemistry
  • Josip Blonder
  • Donald J. Johann
  • Timothy D. Veenstra, Cedarville University
  • Zhen Xiao
  • Michael R. Emmert-Buck
  • Regina G. Ziegler
  • Jaime Rodriguez-Canales
  • Jeffrey A. Hanson
  • Xia Xu
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-15-2008
PubMed ID
18937426
PubMed Central® ID
10.1021/ac801402a
Abstract

As analytical technologies in proteomics and metabolomics continue to mature, there is an increasing need to apply these to clinically relevant biologic samples. In this study, a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method that utilizes selected reaction monitoring was used to measure the absolute quantity of estrogens and estrogen metabolites and testosterone in 8-microm tissue sections obtained from a fresh frozen lymph node tumor infiltrated by metastatic breast carcinoma. Total (conjugated plus unconjugated) and unconjugated levels of these steroid hormones were measured using two cohorts, each containing five adjacent serial sections cut from this tumor. The results were highly reproducible across replicate samples, showing that typical histological tissue sections represent an important sample type for the measurement of these specific metabolites.

Keywords
  • Cell line,
  • tumor,
  • chromatography,
  • liquid,
  • estrogens,
  • frozen sections,
  • hormones,
  • humans,
  • steroids,
  • tandem mass spectrometry,
  • testosterone
Citation Information
Josip Blonder, Donald J. Johann, Timothy D. Veenstra, Zhen Xiao, et al.. "Quantitation of Steroid Hormones in Thin Fresh Frozen Tissue Sections" Analytical Chemistry Vol. 80 Iss. 22 (2008) p. 8845 - 8852 ISSN: 1520-6882
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/timothy-veenstra/143/