Serum steroid profiling by isotopic dilution-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry: Comparison with current immunoassays and reference intervals in healthy adults
Serum steroid profiling by isotopic dilution-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry: Comparison with current immunoassays and reference intervals in healthy adults
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DOI:
10.1016/j.steroids.2010.11.005
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发表时间:
2011-02-01
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2.7
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Pagotto, Uberto
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作者:
Fanelli, Flaminia;Belluomo, Ilaria;Pagotto, Uberto
Background: The simultaneous, rapid and reliable measurement of a wide steroid panel is a powerful tool to unravel physiological and pathological hormone status. Clinical laboratories are currently dominated by high-throughput immunoassays, but these methods lack specificity due to cross-reactivity and matrix interferences. We developed and validated an isotopic dilution-liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (ID-LC-MS/MS) method for the simultaneous measurement of cortisol, corticosterone, 11deoxycortisol, androstenedione, deoxycorticosterone (DOC), testosterone, 17OHprogesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and progesterone in serum, and compared it to routine immunoassays employed in our laboratory. We also established adult reference intervals in 416 healthy subjects.Methods: 0.9 ml of serum were spiked with labelled internal standards (IS) and extracted on C18 cartridges. Eluate was injected into a two-dimensional LC-system, purified in a perfusion column and separated on a C8 column during a 21 min gradient run. Analytes were revealed by atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) followed by multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) analysis.Results: Of the four immunoassays compared with the ID-LC-MS/MS method, only the results of ElecsysE170 for cortisol, testosterone in males and progesterone > 1 ng/ml were in agreement with ID-LC-MS/MS. ElecsysE170 for testosterone in females and progesterone