Crossword clues for mineralocorticoid
Wiktionary
n. (context steroid hormone English) Any of a group of steroid hormones, characterised by their similarity to aldosterone and their influence on salt and water metabolism.
WordNet
n. hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium
Wikipedia
Mineralocorticoids are a class of corticosteroids, which are a class of steroid hormones. Mineralocorticoids are corticosteroids that influence salt and water balances ( electrolyte balance and fluid balance). The primary mineralocorticoid is aldosterone, notable for an aldehyde group at the 18 position.
Usage examples of "mineralocorticoid".
Aldosterone is also unusual, for a mineralocorticoid, in possessing an oxygen at carbon-n.
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 of those in which the oxygen is absent in the first place.
Inhibition of the enzyme allows cortisol to act as the major endogenous mineralocorticoid producing a marked elevation in mineralocorticoid activity, resulting in hypertension, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis.
The mineralocorticoids seem to be more immediately vital to life than are the glycocorticoids, for adrenalectomized rats are kept alive longer by the administration of DOC than by use of corticosterone.
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 mineralocorticoid.