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glucocorticoid

NOUN
  1. a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity

How To Use glucocorticoid In A Sentence

  • Chronically stressed mammals produce hormones called glucocorticoids, which can suppress certain immune-system and gonadal functions when the hormones remain elevated.
  • Pulmonary arteriole muscularization in lambs with diaphragmatic hernia after combined tracheal occlusion/glucocorticoid therapy. CHOP congenital diaphragmatic hernia publications
  • In one of them, Dallman and her colleagues simulated chronic stress by increasing the brain concentration of a rodent version of the glucocorticoid called cortisol.
  • In the chronic therapy of hypercalcemia caused by increased bone resorption or increased intestinal calcium absorption glucocorticoids are effective.
  • Factors contributing to the additional improvement include increases in oxygenation, right ventricular function, cardiac output, number of sarcomeres, and muscle mass, and a decrease in glucocorticoid use.
  • Seventy-one of the monitored patients were treated with glucocorticoids, associated or unassociated with azathioprine or cyclophosphamide, and the remaining 39 patients were untreated.
  • The authors conclude that adrenal function is commonly suppressed immediately following conventional short-term therapy with glucocorticoids.
  • Cortisol, also called hydrocortisone, is one of the most potent of the glucocorticoids.
  • In the chronic therapy of hypercalcemia caused by increased bone resorption or increased intestinal calcium absorption glucocorticoids are effective.
  • This confidence cannot be extrapolated to other situations of much larger glucocorticoid exposures in the perinatal period.
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