Abstract:We previously reported that the daily urinary unidentified ketosteroid glucuronide (US-G) level in patients with Cushing's syndrome was much higher than that in the healthy subjects. Furthermore, urine samples from patients with Cushing's syndrome, including those with pituitary adenoma and adrenal adenoma, yielded almost the same high excretion levels, despite the different sites of the adenomas. We extracted US obtained by hydrolysis of US-G in urine of patients with Cushing's syndrome, purified it, and anal… Show more
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