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n. - Hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium.

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  • In consequence the new mineralocorticoid was named aldosterone (al-dos'ter-ohn) -
  • Aldosterone is also unusual, for a mineralocorticoid, in possessing an oxygen at carbon-n.
  • In 1953, more than a decade after the discovery of four important glycocorticoids and two important mineralocorticoids, there came the rather surprising isolation of another...
  • Why this should be we cannot yet tell, but this point of putting the oxygen on, then neutralizing it, results in a mineralocorticoid that is much more powerful than any...
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