Endocrine Abstracts

Stress is increasingly pervasive in modern society and an unavoidable stimulus to the human organism. Stressors, whether of social or physical type, activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, resulting in the upregulation of glucocorticoid levels and, in some cases, its de novo biosynthesis. Aside from HPA axis regulation, corticosteroids also modulate the immune response to inflammation and affect the whole-body metabolism. Accurate quantification of endogenous s...