Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Steroid hormones such as the estrogen 17β-estradiol and the androgen testosterone play an important role in the etiology of hormone dependent diseases. To investigate factors influencing endogenous steroid hormone synthesis also biologically less active glucuronides and sulfates should be considered since they can serve as circulating reservoir for bioactive hormones. As the sensitivity of the available mass spectrometry (MS)-based method is lower for glucuron...