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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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Autor principal: Bertagna, Xavier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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