The urinary excretion of androsterone, aetiocholanolone, total 17-oxosteroids, and 17-hydroxycorticosteroids (17-OHCS) was measured in 40 patients with lung cancer three days before resection and again 10-15 days after resection of their lung tumours. There was a significant postoperative increase in the excretion of 17-OHCS but a significant decrease in the excretion of androsterone and aetioc...

We examined the effect on some clinical chemical assays of adding chlordiazepoxide or its two metabolites, the lactam and the N-desmethylchlordiazepoxide, to serum or urine. We also examined the effect on urinary steroid values of administering the drug for as long as 20 days. The drug, in 10-fold the expected concentrations in blood, or its metabohites, in 200-fold the expected Concentration i...

The determination of urinary corticosteroids by their conversion to 17-ketosteroids (17-KS) on treatment of urine with sodium bismuthate has been recently reported (Norymberski, 1952; Norymberski, Stubbs, and West, 1953). The group of corticosteroids thus determined has been termed 17-ketogenic steroids (17-KGS). The interest in this method shown by colleagues from other laboratories prompts us...

Previous studies have shown that IL-17 is a strong proinflammatory cytokine and that IL-17-producing autoreactive T cells play a major role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. In a previous study, we showed that injection of experimental autoimmune uveitis-susceptible mice with anti-IL-17 Abs blocked subsequent disease development. To determine whether administration of IL-17 to experim...

An inhibitor of adrenal steroid biosynthesis, aminoglutethimide, was administered to seven patients with low renin essential hypertension, and the antihypertensive action of the drug was compared with its effects on adrenal steroid production. In all patients aldosterone concentrations in plasma and urine were within normal limits before the study. Mean arterial pressure was reduced from a pret...