Abstract 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 functionally specialized zones. fetal forms from mesodermal material predominantly C19 steroids its zone, which involutes after birth. Transition to the occurs immediately bi...

Adrenal cortical hyperplasia which is known to occur during infection and after trauma (1, 2) suggests the occurrence of a corresponding increase in the physiological activity of the gland. Scant information is available, however, bearing directly on the functional status of the adrenal cortex during conditions of stress. It would be important to know not only whether periods of stress are acco...

Our knowledge of the functions of the normal and diseased adrenal cortex in adults is still slight and we know even less about it in newborn babies and in children. In the past few years an increasing number of methods for examining adrenal function have been described. In addition to the determination of the total amount of 17-ketosteroids (17-KS) and of 17-hydroxycorticoids (17-OH) excreted i...

The evidence of the literature indicates that the adrenal cortex produces a variety of hormones, some of which, like desoxycorticosterone, act predominantly to maintain a normal water and electrolyte balance (1), while others, like corticosterone, are effective chiefly through preventing hypoglycemia, either by facilitating the formation of sugar from protein (gluconeogenesis) (2) or by inhibit...

detail. The interesting discussion of this paper briefly covers considerations of cerebral influences on perception and sensory input in general. The next section of the book consists of an extensive, 90-page report by Joel Elkes on the effects of psychosomimetic drugs in animals and man. This represents a detailed presentation of the valuable work of Elkes and his group, and one may be very gr...

background: noise pollution is considered as a stressful factor in every day’s life of the industrial world. the present study was designed to investigate the probable effects of different time exposure of noise stress on histomorphometric changes of adrenal gland, plasma cortisol and body weight of the rat.   methods: sixty adult male wistar rats were divided into two series of short time nois...

Mouse and monkey adrenal glands were used to study the relationships between gap junction protein expression, intercellular communication and adrenal zonation. Dye communication patterns were determined by incubating freshly excised and hemisected adrenal glands in Lucifer yellow, a gap junction permeable fluorescent dye. Immunohistochemical techniques were used to localize adrenal gap junction...