Endocrine Abstracts

Steroid profiling of biological fluids has been used for clinical and diagnostic research since the 1950s. Most methods focus on blood and urine, however, more recently saliva analysis has been employed as a non-invasive, simple to collect sample for the diagnosis of conditions such as Cushing’s and androgen excess. Despite its ease of collection, saliva remains an underutilised biofluid. To investigate the use of salivary steroid profiling for endocrine research, we aimed to ...