Endocrine Abstracts

2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the term hormone by Ernest Starling. Although its biological effects were known since antiquity, the name testosterone (T) was coined only in 1935, when Ernest Laqueur isolated it from bull testes. The road to this isolation was long: John Hunter had transplanted testes into capons in 1786 and Adolph Berthold postulated internal secretion from his testicular transplantation experiments in 1849. Following his obs...

E Nieschlag, Institute of Reproductive Medicine of the University, Muenster, Germany AbstractEberhard Nieschlag studied medicine at the Universities of Bonnand Munich and biochemistry at University College London. He went on to specialize in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University Hospitals of Mainz and Düsseldorf. He has also conducted research at the MRC Clinical Research Unit for Reproductive En...