Haematological Changes in Cockerels after ACTH and Cortisone-Acetate Treatment

Cytological changes in human hypophyses after cortisone and ACTH treatment.

On the Pigments of Allescheria boydii: Gilberto G. Villela and Amadeu Cury .................. 430 The Coloration of the Tail Tip of Young Fer-de-Lances: Sexual Dimorphism rather than Adaptive Coloration: W. Leslie Burger and Philip W. Smith ............ 431 Molybdenum Deficiency in Dunkirk Silty Clay Loam: G. J. Raleigh .................................. 433 A Simple Apparatus for Producing Dro...

Sarcoidosis: treatment with cortisone, ACTH and urethane.

Consistent results were not obtained from urethane, calciferol, nitrogen mustard and antibiotics in the treatment of sarcoidosis by Sones and his associates’ but they recently reported marked improvement in two patients with sarcoidosis treated with cortisone. Association of functional adrenal impairment with sarcoidosis was suggested by their report. The dramatic regression observed in their t...

Effects of exogenous adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) upon pituitary ACTH concentration after prolonged cortisone treatment and stress.

Symptoms and metabolic abnormalities closely resembling those of hypoadrenalism have been reported following cessation of prolonged treatment with adrenal steroids (1-5). Sudden death following surgery has been reported in association with this syndrome and has been ascribed to failure of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system to respond to stress (6-9). Since prolonged administration of cor...

Cortisone and ACTH.

Hematologic changes with ACTH and cortisone therapy of rheumatoid arthritis.

By STUART C. FINCH, M.D., CHARLES L. (‘RocKlirr, .Jit., \1.1)., JOSEPH F. Ross, M.I). AND THEODORE B. BAYLES, M.D. M OST PHYSIOLOGIC PROCESSES are modified directly or iuidirec’tl ’ i)3r hou’mones. Although no ‘ ‘hemotrophic” hou’mo)use htos 1)een fount!, 1)100(1 forniation is frec uently altered by euitlocs’ine iml)altouio’e,’ ‘ tond the possii)ihty exists that some blood dyscrasias of obso’ur...