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Pituitary-Adrenal System

"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, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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Bar chart showing 40 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2010 and 2012 and 2016
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