Keywords
Adenosine Cyclic Monophosphate
Biology
Endocrine System
Hormones
Physiology
Prostaglandins--analysis
Prostaglandins--pharmacodynamics
MeSH Terms
Animals
Biological Assay
Blood
Cats
Chromatography, Gas
Chromatography, Ion Exchange
Chromatography, Thin Layer
Densitometry
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Immunochemistry
Optical Rotatory Dispersion
Oxidoreductases
Oxygen Isotopes
Prostaglandins/analysis,isolation & purification,metabolism
Sheep
Silver
Solubility
Spectrophotometry
Spectrum Analysis
Tritium
Ultraviolet Rays
Chemicals
Oxygen Isotopes
Prostaglandins
Tritium
Silver
Oxidoreductases
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Shaw J E
Ramwell P W
Other Abstracts
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The procedures which may be and are being used to provide a basis for the analysis of submicrogram quantitities of prostaglandins are surveyed. Discussion is focused on the following: 1) sources of standards
2) properties (effect of different pH values, effect of blood, metabolism, solubility)
5) estimation (ultraviolet, optical rotatory dispersion, densitometry, radioimmunoassay, enzymatic assay, isotopic methods, bioassay)
6) separation of prostaglandins (separation of PGE, PGF, and PGA with PGB compounds, separation of PGA and PGB compounds, and separation of individual prostaglandins)
and 6) structural identification. Methods of prostaglandin analysis, with the required sensitivity for application to individual tissue and fluid specimens, are still in the developmental state. Although prostaglandins may be ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom, no systematic study of their distribution has been made to date. Recent work has shown that PGE1 has a potent effect on the formation of 3',5' cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) which is widely believed to be an intracellular intermediate in hormone action.