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What is the treatment for adrenal insuffiency?
The treatment for adrenal insufficiency is corticosteroids.
What gland produces corticosteroids?
The adrenal gland
What part of the adrenal gland produces corticosteroids?
anterior
Agents that reaplace hormones lost in adrenal insufficiency?
Corticosteroids are used to replace hormones lost in adrenal insufficiency. There are short acting corticosteroids (cortisone and hydrocortisone), intermediate acting corticosteroids (methylprednisolone, prednisolone, prednisone, traimcinolone), and long acting corticosteroids (betamethasone, budesonide, and dexamethasone).
What gland produces cortisone?
The adrenal glands actually secrete corticosteroids. But the pituitary gland secretes a hormone that stimulates the adrenal glands to secrete the corticosteroids.
What is the term for the hormones produced by the outer portion of the adrenal cortex?
corticosteroids
Any steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex is known as a?
corticosteroids
What is the term for hormones produced by the outer portion of the adrenal cortex?
corticosteroids
What is the terms for the hormones produced by the outer portion of the adrenal cortex?
corticosteroids
What causes addison's disease?
most common cause of Addison's disease is the destruction and/or shrinking (atrophy) of the adrenal cortex. In about 70% of all cases, this atrophy is believed to occur due to an autoimmune disorder
What is the abbreviation for the hormone that stimulates the adrenal glands to produce hormones called corticosteroids?
ACTH
What is corticosteroid?
The corticosteroids are synthesized from cholesterol within the adrenal cortex. There are 4 groups of them and 2 sub groups in one. Don't have time to go into all four groups, what they are, how they are gotten, what they are used for. Study on corticosteroids.
