NOUN
- 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.