Comparative study of methods for extracting steroid hormones from feces of several animal species / Estudo comparativo de protocolos de extração de hormônios esteróides fecais em diferentes espécies de animais

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2006

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Adlercreutz performed the first quantifications of steroid hormones in human feces in 1976. Since then, studies based on this technique have been applied to wildlife, domestic animals, and recently to laboratory animals. Several procedures for extracting fecal steroids were established and are available in the literature. It is possible to assess the efficiency of these techniques measuring how they recover known amounts of radio-labelled hormones added to some fecal samples just before extraction. The aim of this study was to determine the recovery of three procedures for fecal steroid extraction that are commonly used in our laboratory. We assessed, then, how the techniques described by Brown et al. (1994), Graham et al. (2001) and Schwarzenberger et al. (1991) recover 3H-progesterone, 3H-testosterone and 3H-cortisol in the feces from eight animal species: Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus), agouti (Dasyprocta aguti), maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), goat (Capra hircus), sheep (Ovis aries), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) e orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Average recovery of Graham et al. (2001) procedure was higher for progesterone and testosterone and Schwarzenberger et al. (1991) procedure recovered more cortisol. However, our results suggested that the efficiency of the method established by Brown et al. (1994) was underestimated.

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fecal metabolites extração recuperação metabólitos fecais esteróides steroid hormones recovery extraction

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