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In mammals, circadian rhythms of various organs and tissues are synchronized by pacemaker neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus. Glucocorticoids released from the adrenal glands can synchronize circadian rhythms in other tissues. Many hormones show circadian rhythms in their plasma concentrations; however, whether organs outside the SCN can serve as master synchronize...

To summarize the maintenance of homeostasis in our body terms signal transduction, there are two major axes: autonomic nervous system and hormones. The system, one peripheral nerves, secretes neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine acetylcholine to affect target organs quickly efficiently. Hormones can be viewed signals that trigger larger changes DNA level after they secreted into blood reach...

Steroid hormone biosynthesis by the fetal adrenal gland is crucial to the integrity and continuation of pregnancy, growth of the fetal and maternal tissues, as well as perinatal homeostatic adaptation for extrauterine survival. The adrenal cortex in the primate undergoes a remarkable morphological and functional remodeling such that the fetal adrenal cortex transforms into an adult adrenal cort...

normotensive hyperaldosteronism is a rare disorder. it is usually diagnosed with hypokalemia or an adrenal mass. our patient was a 27-year-old female presented with weakness. she had normal blood pressure, hypokalemia, high plasma aldosterone level and suppressed plasma renin activity. after the saline load, test aldosterone didn’t show suppression. adrenal computed tomography revealed a left a...

Adrenal ganglioneuroma is a benign tumor of the sympathetic nervous system, composed gangliocytes and mature neural stroma. The asymptomatic in majority cases mostly accidentally detected diagnostic imaging due to health check. When large, it causes symptom such as abdominal pain or discomfort. We report case adrenal incidentally 25-year-old male patient. physical examination laboratory tests w...

Levels of angiotensin II immunoreactivity in the rat adrenal gland are over one hundredfold higher than those in plasma. It is unclear, however, whether the major source of adrenal angiotensin II immunoreactivity is intracellular synthesis by a local renin-angiotensin system, uptake by angiotensin II receptors, or both. Our studies show that angiotensin II immunoreactivity in the adrenal gland ...

PURPOSE We documented the uncoupling of sympathetic nervous system activity from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in cats with feline interstitial cystitis (FIC). Altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity was recently suggested in some humans with interstitial cystitis (IC) but to our knowledge no information exists on adrenal gland size and histopathology in this disease. To inves...

The direct oxidative pathway of glucose utilization or the hexose monophosphate shunt has received a great deal of attention recently, and numerous attempts have been made to evaluate its importance in various tissues. Glock and McLean, in making a survey of the levels of enzymes of this pathway in a number of mammalian tissues, recently reported unusually high activity in the adrenal glands, p...