Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of steroid hormones, such as aldosterone, that are secreted by the adrenal cortex and regulate the balance of water and electrolytes in the body.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a group of
steroid hormones , characterised by their similarity toaldosterone and their influence onsalt andwater metabolism .
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- noun hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium
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Examples
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In consequence the new mineralocorticoid was named aldosterone (al-dos'ter-ohn) -
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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In 1953, more than a decade after the discovery of four important glycocorticoids and two important mineralocorticoids, there came the rather surprising isolation of another mineralocorticoid.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Why this should be we cannot yet tell, but this point of putting the oxygen on, then neutralizing it, results in a mineralocorticoid that is much more powerful than any of those in which the oxygen is absent in the first place.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Aldosterone is also unusual, for a mineralocorticoid, in possessing an oxygen at carbon-n.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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In in vitro binding affinity and functional assays this compound has no affinity for the progesterone (PR), estrogen (ER), androgen (AR) or mineralocorticoid (GR-I) receptors.
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In in vitro binding affinity and functional assays neither of these compounds have affinity for the progesterone (PR), estrogen (ER), androgen (AR) or mineralocorticoid (GR-I) receptors.
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De Bono said patients taking abiraterone generally avoided the unpleasant side-effects associated with chemotherapy, although they did have more mineralocorticoid-related side effects.
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A 35 year old woman was taking life long glucocorticoid (dexamethasone) and mineralocorticoid (fludrocortisone, Florinef, Squibb) replacement for congenital adrenal hyperplasia caused by 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
BMJ Latest Articles 2009
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The null mice exhibited glucocorticoid deficiency, mineralocorticoid excess, adrenal hyperplasia, mild hypertension, and hypokalemia.
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Patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia arising from mutations of 11β-hydroxylase, the final enzyme in the glucocorticoid biosynthetic pathway, exhibit glucocorticoid deficiency, adrenal hyperplasia driven by unsuppressed hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal activity, and excess mineralocorticoid activity caused by the accumulation of deoxycorticosterone.
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