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Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles,

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Plus Book Chapters

The following is a selection of recent peer-reviewed articles as well as some book chapters by Don Catlin, M.D., and others, including Caroline K. Hatton, Ph.D., with Anti-Doping Research, Inc. They are broken down into three categories: On Steroids, On EPO, and On Other Anti-Doping Topics.

On Steroids

On EPO

On Other Anti-Doping Topics

On Other Anti-Doping Topics

~ On Steroids:

Catlin DH. Anabolic steroids. In DeGroot LJ, Jameson JL, eds. Endocrinology Elsevier Saunders 2006; 5th Edition: 3265-82.
See the book containing this chapter

Sekera MH, Ahrens BD, Chang YC, Starcevic B, Georgakopoulos C, Catlin DH. Another designer steroid: discovery, synthesis, and detection of ‘madol’ in urine. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2005. 19: 781-4.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Catlin DH, Sekera MH, Ahrens BD, Starcevic B, Chang YC, Hatton CK. Tetrahydrogestrinone: discovery, synthesis, and detection in urine. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2004. 18: 1245-9.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Catlin DH, Ahrens BD, Kucherova Y. Detection of norbolethone, an anabolic steroid never marketed, in athletes’ urine. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2002. 16:1273-5.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Wang C, Catlin DH, Demers LM, Starcevic B, Swerdloff RS. Measurement of total serum testosterone in adult men: Comparison of current laboratory methods versus liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2004. 89: 534-43.
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Starcevic B, DiStefano E, Wang C, Catlin DH. Liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric assay for human testosterone and deuterated testosterone. Journal of Chromatography B 2003. 792: 197-204.

Aguilera R, Hatton CK, Catlin DH. Detection of epitestosterone doping by isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Clinical Chemistry 2002. 48: 629-36.
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Catlin DH, Leder BZ, Ahrens BD, Hatton CK, Finkelstein JS. Effects of androstenedione administration on epitestosterone metabolism in men. Steroids 2002. 67: 559-64.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Leder BZ, Leblanc KM, Longcope C, Lee H, Catlin DH, Finkelstein JS. Effects of oral androstenedione administration on serum testosterone and estradiol levels in postmenopausal women. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2002. 87: 5449-54.
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Leder BZ, Catlin DH, Longcope C, Ahrens B, Schoenfeld DA, Finkelstein JS. Metabolism of orally administered androstenedione in young men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2001. 86: 3654-8.
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Aguilera R, Chapman TE, Starcevic B, Hatton CK, Catlin DH. Performance characteristics of a carbon isotope ratio method for detecting doping with testosterone based on urine diols: controls and athletes with elevated testosterone/epitestosterone ratios. Clinical Chemistry 2001. 47: 292–300.
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Aguilera R, Chapman T, Catlin DH. A rapid screening assay for measuring urinary androsterone and etiocholanolone δ13C (‰) values by gas chromatography/combustion/isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2000. 14: 2294–9.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Catlin DH, Leder BZ, Ahrens B, Starcevic B, Hatton CK, Green GA, Finkelstein JS. Trace contamination of over-the-counter androstenedione and positive urine test results for a nandrolone metabolite. Journal of the American Medical Association 2000. 284: 2618-21.
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Leder BZ, Longcope C, Catlin DH, Ahrens B, Schoenfeld DA, Finkelstein JS. Oral androstenedione administration and serum testosterone concentrations in young men. Journal of the American Medical Association 2000. 283: 779-82.
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Sheffield-Moore M, Urban RJ, Wolf SE, Jiang J, Catlin DH, Herndon DN, Wolfe RR, Ferrando AA. Short-term oxandrolone administration stimulates net muscle protein synthesis in young men. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1999. 84: 2705-11.
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Aguilera R, Catlin DH, Becchi M, Phillips A, Wang C, Swerdloff RS, Pope HG, Hatton CK. Screening urine for exogenous testosterone by isotope ratio mass spectrometric analysis of one pregnanediol and two androstanediols. Journal of Chromatography. B, Biomedical sciences and applications 1999. 727: 95-105.
Abstract

Strawford A, Barbieri T, Van Loan M, Park E, Catlin DH, Barton N, Neese R, Cristiansen M, King J, Hellerstein M. Resistance exercise and supraphysiologic androgen therapy in eugonadal men with HIV-related weight loss – A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 1999. 281: 1282-90.
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Catlin DH, Hatton CK, Starcevic SH. Issues in detecting abuse of xenobiotic anabolic steroids and testosterone by analysis of athletes’ urine. Clinical Chemistry 1997. 43: 1280-8.
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Aguilera R, Becchi M, Casabianca H, Hatton CK, Catlin DH, Starcevic B, Pope HG. Improved method of detection of testosterone abuse by gas chromatography/combustion/isotope ratio mass spectrometry analysis of urinary steroids. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 1996. 31: 169-76.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Catlin DH, Cowan DA, de la Torre R, Donike M, Fraisse D, Oftebro H, Hatton CK, Starcevic B, Becchi M, de la Torre X, Norli H, Geyer H, Walker CJ. Urinary testosterone (T) to epitestosterone (E) ratios by GC/MS. I. Initial comparison of uncorrected T/E in six international laboratories. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 1996. 31: 397-402.
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~ On EPO:

Catlin DH, Hatton CK, Lasne F. Abuse of Recombinant Erythropoietins by Athletes. In: Molineux G, Foote MA, Elliot S, eds. In Erythropoietins and Erythropoiesis: Molecular, Cellular, Preclinical, and Clinical Biology. Birkhauser Verlag 2003; 205-27.
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Breidbach A, Catlin DH, Green GA, Tregub I, Truong H, Gorzek J. Detection of recombinant human erythropoietin in urine by isoelectric focusing. Clinical Chemistry 2003. 49: 901-7.
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Catlin DH, Breidbach A, Elliott S, Glaspy J. Comparison of the isoelectric focusing patterns of darbepoetin alfa, recombinant human erythropoietin, and endogenous erythropoietin from human urine. Clinical Chemistry 2002. 48: 2057-9.
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~ On Other Anti-Doping Topics:

Breidbach A, Catlin DH. RSR13 A potential athletic performance enhancement agent: detection in urine by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2001. 15: 2379-82.
Abstract (and full text PDF for a fee to the publisher)

Catlin DH, Murray TH. Performance-enhancing drugs, fair competition, and Olympic sport. Journal of the American Medical Association 1996. 276: 231-7. Abstract

Catlin DH, Murray TH. Drug testing in sport-bayes theorem meets advanced technology – reply. Journal of the American Medical Association 1996. 276: 1471-2.

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