Talk:List of steroid abbreviations

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Source of information[edit]

This information was collected by Armando G. Amador, M.D., the president of the Illinois State Academy of Science. It has since been removed from that website. I intend to find references for the abbreviations listed here. --Slashme 09:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References, non-standard abbreviations, etc.[edit]

Hi,

I have gone through the list with Google Scholar and PubMed, and found references for the most common abbreviations for most of the steroids listed here. I can't find refs for andronosterone(*) and a few others, so I have left them as is for now. Please hack away.

You will notice that I put all the refs at the top, so that the table would still be readable. I put them between noinclude tags, so that they wouldn't show up in the text, but it's still not a completely ideal setup, because it leads to an extra back-reference for each ref. Improve it if you can think of a good solution. --Slashme 10:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(*) This appears to have been a misprint for adrenosterone, judging from the systematic name. --Slashme 12:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To do[edit]

We stil need sources for the systematic names (I guess PubChem will be a good place to start).
I haven't yet investigated the redlinked names.
We could probably trim the list of references quite significantly by looking for unnecessary duplication (e.g. if one article refers to P4, P5 and 17P5, and we have a separate reference for 17P5, we could cover them all with one reference). If you have more time than sense, this could be the job for you!

--Slashme 11:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Along the lines of the "red link" names, I'm wondering how easily / whether or not the "systemic name" column can be compared to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature aka IUPACa names. (which tend to be in a table for any of the Category:Sex_steroids articles) Hope this helps. --Kuzetsa (talk) 17:29, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Expert needed (justification)[edit]

There are 2 different molecules on this list for DHT and neither link to the Dihydrotestosterone article...

Fixed: 5α-DHT is the form normally referred to as DHT. --Slashme (talk) 14:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

also note, many articles in Category:Sex_steroids use the term "systemic" in the infobox table for the IUPAC name.

Actually, that was a typo: it should read "systematic". --Slashme (talk) 14:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also see:Talk:Dihydrotestosterone#citations_.2F_sources_for_IUPAC_names_on_this_and_many_.22sex_steroid.22_articles ... the IUPAC & systemic names have been unsourced / unable to be verified going back as far as 2007 --Kuzetsa (talk) 17:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced, yes. Unable to be verified? Not really. I just haven't put any effort into what I didn't think would be a very productive enterprise. If we must get sources, I guess we can. --Slashme (talk) 14:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's always good to recruit experts, so we can keep the tag for a while. --Slashme (talk) 14:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]