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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Adrenocortical hormones."”.
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Studies in cholestrol metabolism
… steroids occurring in minute quantities e.g. sex hormones, corticosteroids, the vitamins D and the cardiac glycosides. In sharp contrast are certain sterols, exemplified in the animal kingdom by cholesterol - familiar, abundant, easily determined, yet singularly obscure in their physiological …
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The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace
… and complete immobilization--by releasing adrenocortical hormones to regulate bodily functions. For the next fifty years he devoted his career to studying the mechanisms by which stress operated, using his training in histology and biological assay to identify how stress altered …
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Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of conformationally constrained models of hydrocortisone
<p>The study of conformation in drug action can be approached from two directions, (i) that of the drug, and (ii) that of the receptor. Since the problem of elucidating the biologically active conformation of drug molecules has been extensively studied and is very well reviewed<sup>1,2</sup>, it …
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Analysis of the Metabolism of Dextran-Methylprednisolone Succinate Using
A brief review of past and present immunosuppressive treatments, including corticosteroids,cyclosporine A, and tacrolimus as they relate to liver transplantation is presented. The most common and detrimental side effects are presented for each therapy, and a method to reduce these adverse effects …