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Allelochemics: Chemical Interactions between Species

Calculation of free and bound fractions of testosterone and estradiol-17 beta to human plasma proteins at body temperature.

Biological and Phytochemical Screening of Plants

Paper spray is developed as a direct sampling ionization method for mass spectrometric analysis of complex mixtures. Ions of analyte are generated by applying a high voltage to a paper triangle wetted with a small volume (<10 μL) of solution. Samples can be preloaded onto the paper, added with the wetting solution, or transferred from surfaces using the paper as a wipe. It is demonstrated that paper spray is applicable to the analysis of a wide variety of compounds, including small organic compounds, peptides, and proteins. Procedures are developed for analysis of dried biofluid spots and applied to therapeutic drug monitoring with whole blood samples and to illicit drug detection in raw urine samples. Limits of detection of 50 ng/mL (or 20 pg absolute) are achieved for atenolol in bovine blood. The combination of sample collection from surfaces and paper spray ionization also enables fast chemical screening at high sensitivity, for example 100 pg of heroin distributed on a surface and agrochemicals on fr...

Development, characterization, and application of paper spray ionization.

Double isotope derivative assay of aldosterone in biological extracts.

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Methods of paper chromatography of steroids applicable to the study of steroids in mammalian blood and tissues.

The Medical Research Council Medicinal Plants Survey in its expedition to Africa collected many specimens of the seed of Strophanthus hi8pidus P.DC. and S. sarmento8us P.DC., mostly from individual plants, in order to investigate the occurrence of sarmentogenin, a substance which forms a possible starting material for the production of cortisone. The isolation of sarmentogenin from certain of these seeds has already been reported (Callow, Meikle & Taylor, 1951). The present paper is a report on the preliminary investigation ofall the samples collected, and reveals certain interesting features about the distribution of cardiac aglycones in various Strophanthus species. As the examination of each seed sample by isolation of the constituents might take several years for completion, a method has been developed for the routine semi-micro investigation of the easily hydrolysable glycosides of the seeds. These easily hydrolysable glycosides (Reichstein, 1951), which are completely hydrolysed by refluxing for half an hour in 50% aqueous methanol which has been made 0-1N with respect to sulphuric acid, are those in which the steroidal portion of the molecule is directly attached in a glycosidic linkage to a 2deoxy sugar. Most of the best known glycosides belong to this group, which is much easier to investigate than the group in which the aglycones are directly attached to 'normal' sugars carrying a hydroxyl group at C(2), such as glucose or rhamnose, where isolation of the intact aglycone is usually difficult and has in several cases not yet been achieved. Investigation of the 'normal' glycosides in our seed samples has so far only been carried out in selected cases. The paper-chromatographic method of Zaffaroni, Burton & Keutmann (1950) (cf. Burton, Zaffaroni & Keutmann,1951)hasbeenusedbySchindler & Reichstein (1951) for separating this type of substance, but the procedure is in many ways complicated

I. E. Bush

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Methods of paper chromatography of steroids applicable to the study of steroids in mammalian blood and tissues.

The paper chromatographic examination of the cardiac aglycones of Strophanthus seeds.