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This comprehensive and up-to-date 2nd edition, written by a team of distinguished experts from around the world concentrates on the analysis of steroids in biological fluids. This edition is based on the same format as the first, primarily dealing with analysis of low levels of steroid analytes in biological fluids, but including an extra chapter on pharmaceutical aspects of steroid analysis. Spectroscopic and other methods, including UV and IR absorption spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, chromatography and immunoassay of steroids are treated in detail. Extraction, purification and quantitation is followed by analysis of specific steroid groups, such as progestagens, estrogens, corticosteroids and anabolic steroids. The editors have made a conscious decision to leave the first edition to stand on its own with regards to steroid analysis prior to 1995 and authors therefore were asked to review the modern post-1995 steroid scene. Second edition of successful reference on steroid analysis Includes a completely new chapter on pharmaceutical aspects of steroid analysis Comprehensive and up-to-date review of steroid analysis, written by experts in the field Strong focus on developments in steroid analysis since 1995

Índice: 1. Structure and Nomenclature of Steroids. 2. Spectroscopic Methods of Steroid Analysis. 3. General Methods for the Extraction, Purification and Measurement of Steroids by Chromatography and Mass Spectrometre. 4. Immunoassay of Steroids. 5. Analysis of Corticosteroids. 6 Analysis of Androgens their Derivatives. 7. Analysis of Progestagens. 8 The Measurement of Estrogens. 9. Anabolic steroids: Metabolism, doping and detection in human and equestrian sports. 10. Analysis of Bile Acids. 11. Analysis of Vitamins D, Structural Analogs and their Metabolites. 12. Industrial and Compendial Steroid Analysis. 13. Quality Management of Steroid Hormone Assays.