Moon, Ju-Yeon McNamara, Keely May Lee, Jung-Jin Chung, Bong Chul Sasano, Hironobu Choi, Man Ho 2024-01-19T23:03:24Z 2024-01-19T23:03:24Z 2021-09-03 2018-04 0960-0760 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/121568 Sex steroids in clinical endocrinology have been mainly investigated with peripheral blood and urine samples, while there is limited information regarding the local levels within tissues. To improve analytical properties of sex steroids from trace amounts of tissue samples, two-phase extractive ethoxycarbonlyation and subsequent pentafluoropropionyl derivatization coupled to gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) was developed. The optimized analytical conditions led to excellent chromatographic separation of 15 estrogens, 6 androgens, and 2 progestins. The quantitative results were calculated based on in-house control samples as the steroid-free tissues, and the precision and accuracy were 4.2%-26.8% and 90.8%-116.4%, respectively. The on-column limit of quantification was from 180 fg to 0.5 pg for androgens and estrogens, and 1.25 pg for progestins, which were found to be linear (r(2) > 0.990). The validated method was then applied to quantify 7 sex steroids from three 100-mu m-thick frozen breast tissue slices from postmenopausal patients with breast cancer. This is the first report on the improved GC-MS/MS method for the detection of androgens and pregnenolone from breast cancer tissues, and it can be a useful technique to measure the local levels of sex steroids, thus, enhancing our understanding of the pathophysiological significances of steroidogenesis. English PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE-TISSUE POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN HORMONE CONCENTRATIONS SERUM ESTROGENS PROGESTERONE QUANTIFICATION ANDROGENS CARCINOMA AROMATASE Improved detectability of sex steroids from frozen sections of breast cancer tissue using GC-triple quadrupole-MS Article 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2017.12.012 1 JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, v.178, pp.185 - 192 JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 178 185 192 scie scopus 000428483800021 2-s2.0-85038917165 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Endocrinology & Metabolism Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Endocrinology & Metabolism Article TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE-TISSUE POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN HORMONE CONCENTRATIONS SERUM ESTROGENS PROGESTERONE QUANTIFICATION ANDROGENS CARCINOMA AROMATASE Breast cancer Steroids Estrogens Frozen tissue Mass spectrometry