Endocrine Abstracts

The adrenals are at the centre of the steroid universe, with the adrenal cortex producing aldosterone, cortisol and the adrenal androgen precursors DHEA and androstenedione. Hormone excess (or deficiency) is a characteristic feature of the majority of adrenal diseases and recent years have seen major progress in dissecting adrenal steroid excess through novel approaches. This includes steroid metabolomics, the mass spectrometry-based analysis of steroid production in conjuncti...

Wiebke Arlt is the William Withering Chair of Medicine and Director of the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.Wiebke Arlt trained in General Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, under the auspices of Bruno Allolio, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California at San Francisc...