Endocrine Abstracts

Having been known as a reliable tool for assessing the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, measurement of salivary cortisol plays an important role in both the clinical settings and the researches. To establish a normative data, which forms the basis for the usage of this valuable parameter, we gathered 8:00 h saliva samples from 94 healthy individuals aged 6-14 years. Cortisol levels were measured by radioimmunoassay technique, using Orion Diagnostica`s coated tube tec...