NOUN
- a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex
How To Use corticotropin In A Sentence
- This stimulus results in the secretion of corticotropin into plasma, stimulation of corticotropin receptors in the adrenal cortex, and release of cortisol into the blood.
- Eventually, the withdrawal of the high-sugar chow triggered the release of a molecule known as corticotropin-releasing factor, or CRF, which causes anxious and depressive feelings and has been linked to relapses in drug addicts. Forbes.com: News
- AIM:To study the effect of intraventricular injection(icv) of histamine(HA) on corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) neurons activity in paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of hypothalamus.
- The increase in these stress hormones is probably caused by the master stress hormone, corticotropin releasing hormone.
- This is because the stress hormone corticotropin will produce oil when triggered. The Sun
- Receptors for corticotropin and the glucocorticoid hormones have been cloned and mechanisms of action elucidated.
- Like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with increased secretion of corticotropin releasing hormone.
- In a study published earlier this year in The Journal of Neuroscience, Baram and colleagues identified how sensory stimuli from maternal care can modify genes that control a key messenger of stress called corticotropin-releasing hormone. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Wylie Vale, Ph.D. and colleagues have already established the role of the hormone called corticotropin-releasing factor (or CRF) in regulating the stress response in people. Foodconsumer.org
- The marker is an elevated level of the hypothalamic hormone corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) during the 25th week of pregnancy.