THE STIMULATING EFFECT OF CHORIONIC GONADOTROPHIN ON THE ADRENAL CORTEX
- 1 October 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Acta Endocrinologica
- Vol. 11 (2) , 119-126
- https://doi.org/10.1530/acta.0.0110119
Abstract
Two castrated women and a eunuchoid man were inj. with large doses of chorionic gona-dotropin (10,000 to 20,000 I.U. daily for 3-4 days) with resulting rise in the excretion of 17-ketosteroids. No change occurred in the excretion of neutral reducing lipids in the eunuchoid (only one tested).Keywords
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