Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Salivary testosterone (Sal-T) reflects the plasma free testosterone fraction that can flow passively through the salivary glands and appears to be a strong correlation with the Calculated free testosterone (CFT) in both eugonadal and hypogonadal men. Since the collection of saliva is simple, noninvasive and inexpensive, the Sal-T is a promising tool for the screening of hypogonadism. Despite the initial interest that Sal-T has aroused, new clinical studies are ne...

Introduction: Free testosterone (FT) and bioavailable testosterone (BT), are better surrogate markers of the androgenic status of the individual than total testosterone (TT). Calculated FT (CFT) and calculated BT (CBT) which take into consideration the kinetics of the bond between FT and albumin and SHBG, provide results practically identical to those of the reference techniques. Salivary testosterone (Sal-T) is a promising tool in the study of gonadal pathology. The interassa...