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The Interplay between Estrogen and Fetal Adrenal Cortex [PDF]
Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2012 Estrogen is a steroid hormone that regulates embryogenesis, cell proliferation and differentiation, organogenesis, the timing of parturition, and fetal imprinting by carrying chemical messages from glands to cells within tissues or organs in the body ...
Jovana Kaludjerovic, Wendy E. Ward
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Adrenal cortex senescence: an ageing-related pathology? [PDF]
J Endocrinol InvestThe adrenal glands are a pair of endocrine organs that produce and secrete mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, sex hormones, adrenaline, and noradrenaline.
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Adrenal cortex development and related disorders leading to adrenal insufficiency. [PDF]
, 2021 The adult human adrenal cortex produces steroid hormones that are crucial for life, supporting immune response, glucose homeostasis, salt balance and sexual maturation. It consists of three histologically distinct and functionally specialized zones.
Flück, Christa E. +3 more
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Life, 2023 Mitochondrial dynamics plays a significant role in shaping the mitochondrial network and maintaining mitochondrial function. Imbalanced mitochondrial dynamics can cause mitochondrial dysfunction leading to a wide range of diseases/disorders.
Isidora M. Keselj +5 more
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Heliyon, 2021 Transcriptional regulation of growth, maturation, and cell turnover in adrenal cortex during postnatal development has been significantly less studied than in embryonic period, while elucidation of factors mediating its normal postnatal morphogenesis ...
Natalya V. Yaglova +7 more
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Canadian Anaesthetists’ Society Journal, 1958 This presentation has attempted to summarize the role of the adrenal cortex in health and disease. The medical conditions for which cortisone therapy has been employed have been listed, in order to alert the anaesthetist to the possibility of previous treatment with steroids m patients who are suffering or have suffered at any time from these diseases.
G M, WYANT, A J, LONGMORE, C H, WEDER
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Vascular and hormonal interactions in the adrenal gland
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Primary aldosteronism is the most common form of secondary arterial hypertension, due to excessive aldosterone production from the adrenal gland. Although somatic mutations have been identified in aldosterone producing adenoma, the exact mechanisms ...
Alaa B. Abdellatif +4 more
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Carcinoma of the Adrenal Cortex [PDF]
Cancer, 1980 Adrenal cortical carcinoma is a rare tumor that affects all ages and sexes and has a dismal prognosis. Half are functional, half are not. Early stages are uncommon and are detected by their endocrine effects, usually in females, as incidental findings at surgery or on computed tomography scans.
Jerome P, Richie, Ruben F, Gittes
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A histological study on the developing adrenal gland in human fetuses
National Journal of Clinical Anatomy, 2021 Background: Adrenal gland has an outer cortex and inner medulla that vary structurally, functionally, and embryologically. The developing gland plays a major role in concordance development of various viscera of the fetus and in parturition.
T Suresh Kumar +2 more
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The Role of Omega-3 on Diazepam Treated Adrenal Cortex of the Adult Male Albino Rats (Histological and Immunohistochemical Study) [PDF]
The Egyptian Journal of Histology, 2023 Introduction: Diazepam is a commonly used member of benzodiazepines. Little attention seems to have been paid to the effects of diazepam on endocrine glands.
Karima Abdelfadeel +3 more
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