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Adrenalectomy
Reports outline adrenalectomy research from A. Flores and colleagues
January 18th, 2009
"Bilateral ovariectomy or adrenalectomy are experimental tools used to understand the mechanisms regulating the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian and the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. There is evidence that acute unilateral perforation of the dorsal peritoneum in rats results in significant changes in progesterone, testosterone and estradiol serum concentrations," scientists writing in the journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology report. "Because different surgical approaches for unilateral or bilateral ovariectomy or adrenalectomy, sectioning the superior ovarian nerve or the vagus nerve are used, we compare the acute effects on hormone serum...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2009-01-18)
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