Computed tomographic (CT) findings of the urinary tract and adrenal glands of five healthy male calves in the first 105 days of life were compared with corresponding cadaver slices. The structures seen on CT images were identified using the corresponding cadaver slices. CT produced exact images of the kidneys, urinary bladder, urethra and adrenal glands, but reliable images of the ureters were ...

BACKGOUND Cushing's syndrome is a rare disease that is caused by the overproduction of cortisol by the adrenal glands. This can be caused by a tumor of the adrenal glands, the lungs or the pituitary gland. When a pituitary tumor produces too much ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), it causes the overproduction of cortisol by the adrenal glands. When the pituitary is the source of the over produ...

After the administration of 3Hand 14C-cholesterol to rats 3 days and 4 hr prior to their death respectively, ester and free cholesterol in adrenal glands were successfully labeled separately with different isotopes. Examination of the 3H/14C ratio in free and ester cholesterol of adrenal glands and in plasma corticosterone enabled us to study of the role of ester cholesterol in corticosteroidog...

Adrenocorticotropic hormone administration to guinea pigs resulted in an increase in the content of DNA of adrenal glands and the stimulation of the incorporation of 3H-thymidine into nuclear DNA thereby indicating an induction of DNA synthesis. The activities of thymidine kinase and DNA polymerase of adrenal glands were concomitantly increased following adrenocorticotropic hormone treatment. T...

As has been reported previously by Diller and Shear (6) and by Diller (4), tumor cells of mice injected with a polysaccharide derived by Shear (9) from Serratia marcescens culture filtrate show degenerative responses within 6 hours. At a dose level that produced rapid sloughing of sarcoma 37 in about 1 out of every 4 mice, an equal number of mice usually succumbed to treatment. When adrenal cor...

Preoperative chest computed tomographic (CT) scans in 84 patients with biopsy-proved non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were reviewed. At least one adrenal gland was visualized in 70 of these. Evidence of a solid adrenal mass was present in 18 (14.5%) glands in 15 (21.4%) patients. Percutaneous needle aspiration under CT guidance confirmed metastatic malignancy in the four patients who were ...