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标题：The steroids of 2000-year-old human coprolites.
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作者：D S Lin ; W E Connor ; L K Napton 等
期刊名称：JLR Papers In Press
印刷版ISSN：0022-2275
电子版ISSN：1539-7262
出版年度：1978
卷号：19
期号：2
页码：215-221
语种：English
出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：Six samples of human coprolites, some more than 2,000 years old, were analyzed for fecal steroid composition. Despite this very lengthy period of storage, the fecal steroids of coprolites were remarkably similar to those of stool samples collected today. The sterol nucleus was clearly rather stable under the dry environmental conditions of the Nevada Caves. The steroid content (microgram/g dried weight) of coprolite was low in comparison to that of modern man. The bile acid/cholesterol and plant sterol/cholesterol ratios of the coprolite, however, were similar to these ratios of the stools of modern man. In the six coprolites, an average 73% of the neutral steroids was digitonin-precipitable. This precipitate was composed of cholesterol and three plant sterols (campesterol, stigmasterol, and beta-sitosterol) and their bacteria-modified products. A portion of the neutral steroids had been converted to products tentatively identified as epimers of these steroids. Individual bile acids were identified in the coprolite. The bile acid composition of the coprolite was similar to that of the stool of modern man.