Talk:List of steroid abbreviations

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[edit] Source of information

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)

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

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)

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

[edit] To do

• 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)