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Effects of Chronic ACTH Excess on Human Adrenal Cortex
Chronic ACTH excess leads to chronic cortisol excess, without escape phenomenon, resulting in Cushing’s syndrome. Excess adrenal androgens also occur: in females, they will overcompensate the gonadotrophic loss, inducing high testosterone; in males, they will not compensate it, inducing low testoste...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5340771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28337175 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2017.00043 |