NOUN
- secreted by the adrenal cortex; involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body
How To Use corticosterone In A Sentence
- In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone. Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture
- Objectives : To observe the roles of nuclear factor κ B ( NF κ B ) in corticosterone injured hippocampal neurons.
- Note from the text of the full paper that stress causes the release of the hormone corticosterone which lowers latent inhibition.
- Experiments were carried out end of April (adrenocorticotrophic hormone [ACTH] challenge) and June (radiolabeled corticosterone infusion) 2000, when gonads of the stonechats were fully developed.
- Objective : To explore the role of corticosterone in morphine - induced acute psychomotor activity and behavioral sensitization.
- It turns out that females mated to bad boyfriends had a 3.5 increase in plasma levels of corticosterone -- the major hormone linked to stress in birds. Carin Bondar: Is Your Crappy Boyfriend Stressing You Out? You Are Not Alone...
- Blood tests revealed comparable baseline concentrations of the stress hormone corticosterone in cautious and bold rats.
- Therefore, we investigated relationships between energetic condition and several measures of corticosterone secretion.
- Melatonin and corticosterone are integral to the regulation of daily activity cycles in birds.
- In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone. Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture
