Beyond Vida's Book, Part 2/2: Androgen, Progesterone, Estrogen & Corticosteroid Receptor Activities of ALLmost All Anabolic Steroids - Metabolits, Progestins & More
Image 1: Tetrahydrogestrinone aka THG, aka "The Clear" and the bone of contention in the "BALCO Scandal" could probably have been identified years before, if the WADA detectives already had the new mammalian androgen responsive reporter gene assays at their disposal. As mentioned in part 1 of this post (cf. Beyond Vida's Book, Part 1/2 ), Houtman and the other scientists from BioDetection Systems B.V. and the Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, did not exactly want to provide juicers with data on which steroids may cause unexpected side-effects, when they conducted their study in 2008. The original idea was to demonstrate that their technology would be able to identify even those androgens, which have hitherto not been classified as illegal substances - so called "designer steroids", which would not turn up in the chemical–analytical approaches combining gas chromatography (GC) or liquid chromatography (LC) s...
