One extract made the pituitary release ACTH, another TSH.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1977 - Press Release] Reference

You don't need an ACTH stim test if the 17 oh progesterone is normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia - Something to Consider] Reference

The work at this laboratory was devoted to ACTH and adrenal cortical steroids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew V. Schally - Autobiography] Reference

(Think of the ACTH stim test as causing rush hour traffic in the analogy I gave above.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia - Something to Consider] Reference

I was taken straight to the hospital, and of course, that weekend had ACTH intravenously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Grace Aycock, March 28, 1990. Interview L-0037. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Stress stimulates ACTH production, which in turn stimulates the production of corticoids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

For example, the molar concentration of pituitary ACTH under basal conditions is 1 x 10-12.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1977 - Press Release] Reference

ACTH has the ability of influencing the skin pigmentation of animals, and even man is affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Too high a corticoid level inhibits ACTH production, which in turn allows the corticoid level to drop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The relationship between ACTH and the corticoids is analogous to that between TSH and the thyroid hormones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The production of MSH by the pituitary is, like the production of ACTH, stimulated by low corticoid levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Similar results were obtained with a preparation from the anterior lobe of the pituitary, the so-called ACTH.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Much of the early research into using ACTH (cortisone) was funded by the National Arthritis Research Foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regina Kaplan.] Reference

Cortisol and the other stress hormones remain elevated more than normal because CRF and ACTH are in stress mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat and happy | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

ACTH travels to the adrenal glands and stimulates the release of cortisol, the so-called fight or flight hormone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat and happy | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

Scrapings from the sella have been shown to contain ACTH amounting to almost 5% that of the normal pituitary (57).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems] Reference

To measure such a small amount of ACTH with prevailing biological methods as much as 250 ml of blood was necessary!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1977 - Press Release] Reference

Hench also treated patients with ACTH, a hormone produced by the pituitary gland which stimulates the adrenal gland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip S. Hench - Biography] Reference

How much do the blood test for 17 hydroxyprogesterone and the ACTH stimulation test typically cost without insurance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia - Something to Consider] Reference

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulates the adrenal cortex initiating the secretion of the glucocorticoid cortisol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinning And Cleansing The Blood With HerbaLs] Reference

Thus, even in these "hypophysectomized" rats we believe that residual pituitary fragments are the source of the brain ACTH (57).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems] Reference

Some recent experiments suggest the hypothalamns may stimulate the anterior pituitary as well; in the production of ACTH, for instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

ACTH increases INa magnitude via the cAMP/PKA pathway.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Sodium current increases after 20 min exposure to ACTH.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

+ I-V curves for cells before and after 20 min exposure to ACTH.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

(C) Both ACTH and the cAMP analog 8-Br-cAMP increase the magnitude of IK.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Abbreviations: ACTH, adrenocorticotropic hormone; APs, action potentials.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Inset: superimposed representative EOD waveforms taken at baseline and 1 h after ACTH injection.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

(A) Injections of ACTH increased EOD amplitude whereas saline injections have little or no effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

We then investigated the signal transduction pathway by which ACTH increases the magnitude of INa.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

We used two-electrode voltage clamp to further analyze how ACTH increases AP (and thereby EOD) amplitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

We therefore tested whether the increased INa during ACTH treatment resulted only from the washout of CQ.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

APs were recorded in normal saline and at 5 min intervals following bath application of 100 nM ACTH or saline.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The PKA blocker H89 had no effect alone, but pretreatment with H89 blocked the ACTH - and 8-Br-cAMP-induced increase in IK.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

I-V curves depict normalized INa at baseline and after 30 min exposure to CQ, NEM, or BFA, then 30 min after addition of ACTH.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

We injected fish (1 µl/g intramuscular) at midday with 30 µM ACTH in normal saline, or with normal saline as a control condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference