Human mammary tissue was incubated in vitro with [7-3H] dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHA-sulphate) and in agreement with other investigators this steroid conjugate was metabolized to DHA and other steroid products. Sulphatase activity was greater in the malignant than the non-malignant tissues and was found to be a function of the tissue cellularity. One of the major products, a "polar steroid" necessitated identification. The "polar steroid" was identified principally as 7a-hydroxy DHA by chemical modification techniques and co-crystallization of the purified steroid metabolite with carrier 7a-hydroxy DHA. This carrier required synthesis and characterization.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/277109 |
| Date | January 1980 |
| Creators | Couch, Ronald Alexander Fyfe |
| Publisher | ResearchSpace@Auckland |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated., http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm, Copyright: The author |
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