Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Saliva samples offer the possibility to obtain stress-free non-invasive samples, also for home-testing, especially useful when blood collection is either undesirable or difficult.The aim of this work was to develop an LC–MS/MS method for the determination of clinically relevant steroid hormones cortisol, cortisone, 11-deoxycortisol, 21-deoxycortisol, 17OH-progesterone, aldosterone, corticosterone, deoxycorticosterone, betamethasone, dexamethasone, testosterone...