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Current Status and Recent Advances in the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry of Ecdysteroids

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Chromatography and Isolation of Insect Hormones and Pheromones

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The application of various mass spectrometric techniques to the structure elucidation, detection and quantification of free ecdysteroids and their polar and apolar conjugates is discussed. Three principal areas are considered: (i) gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and its complementarity to radioimmunoassay for the screening of ecdysteroids in invertebrates; (ii) the importance of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry as an adjunct to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the structure elucidation of polar and apolar ecdysteroid conjugates; and (iii) the potential of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for the separation and identification of ecdysteroids.

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    R. P. Evershed, M. Kabbouh, M. C. Prescott & H. H. Rees

  2. Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

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Evershed, R.P., Kabbouh, M., Prescott, M.C., Maggs, J.L., Rees, H.H. (1990). Current Status and Recent Advances in the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry of Ecdysteroids. In: McCaffery, A.R., Wilson, I.D. (eds) Chromatography and Isolation of Insect Hormones and Pheromones. Chromatographic Society Symposium Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8062-7_10

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