"Pituitary-Adrenal System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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The interactions between the anterior pituitary and adrenal glands, in which corticotropin (ACTH) stimulates the adrenal cortex and adrenal cortical hormones suppress the production of corticotropin by the anterior pituitary.
| Descriptor ID |
D010913
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A06.407.691
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| Concept/Terms |
Pituitary-Adrenal System- Pituitary-Adrenal System
- Pituitary Adrenal System
- Pituitary-Adrenal Systems
- System, Pituitary-Adrenal
- Systems, Pituitary-Adrenal
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pituitary-Adrenal System" by people in Profiles.
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Caregiver subjective and physiological markers of stress and patient heart failure severity in family care dyads. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2021 11; 133:105399.
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The Peacock study: feasibility of the dynamic characterisation of the paediatric hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function during and after cardiac surgery. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2020 05 25; 20(1):245.
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Endurance exercise reduces cortisol in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment. Mov Disord. 2019 08; 34(8):1238-1239.
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Sexual well-being and diurnal cortisol after prostate cancer treatment. J Health Psychol. 2020 09; 25(10-11):1796-1801.
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Aging and the HPA axis: Stress and resilience in older adults. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2016 Sep; 68:928-945.
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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression related to topical glucocorticoid therapy in a child with psoriatic exfoliative erythroderma. Pediatr Dermatol. 2012 Jan-Feb; 29(1):101-4.
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Suicide: a four-pathway clinical-biochemical model. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1997 Dec 29; 836:288-301.
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Gonadal steroid hormone receptors and sex differences in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis. Horm Behav. 1994 Dec; 28(4):464-76.