Book Review: The Adrenal Cortex: Physiological Function and Disease

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Adrenal cortex and renal pressor function.

• The concept of an endocrine relationship between adrenals and kidneys has recently received considerable support. Adrenalectomy causes an increase in granularity of the juxtaglomerular cells and in pressor substances contained in kidneys; desoxycorticosterone has the opposite effects while cortisone and cortisol are reported, without supporting data, to have no effects.' It is not clear what ...

Book Review: Music, Passion, and Cognitive Function

Function of the adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla in diabetics.

The importance of the adrenal cortex in diabetes mellitus has been emphasized since the demonstration that the removal of the adrenals would lead to amelioration of diabetes in a depancreatectomized animal,) and that the administration of adrenal extract or hormones would produce an experimental diabetes.2) It is well known that the tumors or hyperplasia of the adrenal cortex are often associat...

Morphologic Changes of Adrenal Cortex in Disease

Stimulation of the adrenal cortex by the "stress" of illness is now taken for granted. Numerous publications have described changes in adrenal cortical histology in particular diseases, and at least one author' has attempted a general study of the adrenal cortex in an autopsy population. Even so little attention is paid the adrenal cortex in the average autopsy performed by the average patholog...