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IT has long been known that oxosteroids are excreted in human urine in conjugated form chiefly as sulphates or glucuronidates. In order to test the hypothesis that the choice of either sulphate or glucuronidate in different individuals may be wholly or partially determined by genetical factors it was necessary to devise a simple and rapid method for the separation and identification of these two groups of conjugates. In the course of these experiments it was found that a third type of conjugate, oxosteroid phosphate, also occurred in human urine.
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KAY, H., WARREN, F. Conjugated Oxosteroids in Human Urine. Nature 203, 406–407 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203406a0
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