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** Addison's disease is a rare disorder in which the adrenal glands do not produce sufficient amounts of glucocorticoids ( mainly cortisol ).
** Congenital adrenal hyperplasias are genetic defects of enzymes involved in cortisol production and can affect sex characteristics of affected patients.
** Waterhouse – Friderichsen syndrome is adrenal gland failure due to bleeding into the adrenal glands, caused by severe bacterial infection.
** increased androgen secretion during puberty ( in males from testis and in females from adrenal cortex )
** the adrenal cortices, which produce glucocorticoid hormones ( mainly cortisol in humans ) in response to stimulation by ACTH.
** Other cases are due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia or an adenoma ( tumor ) of the adrenal gland.
** Norepinephrine ( noradrenaline )-a neurotransmitter involved in sleep and wakefulness, attention, and feeding behavior, as well as a stress hormone released by the adrenal glands that regulates the sympathetic nervous system.
** Epinephrine ( adrenaline )-an adrenal stress hormone, as well as a neurotransmitter present at lower levels in the brain.
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** endocrinopathy ( adrenal, pituitary, gonadal, parathyroid ); diabetes or hypothyroidism alone are insufficient
** and glands
** Holocrine glands — the entire cell disintegrates to secrete its substances ( e. g., sebaceous glands )
** Merocrine glands — cells secrete their substances by exocytosis ( e. g., mucous and serous glands ).
** Supratrochlear glands: Situated above the medial epicondyle of the humerus, medial to the basilic vein, they drain the C7 and C8 dermatomes.
** Deltoideopectoral glands: Situated between the pectoralis major and deltoid muscles inferior to the clavicle.
** Following thyroidectomy, the parathyroid glands are located very close to the thyroid and are easily injured or even accidentally removed during thyroidectomy
** In DiGeorge Syndrome, a disease characterized by the failure of the third and fourth pharyngeal pouches to develop, the parathyroid glands do not form and there is thus a lack of PTH.
** Carcinomas ( malignant tumors ) have invasive glands with crowded, atypical cells, frequent mitoses.
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** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).
** The numbers and are not algebraic numbers ( see the Lindemann – Weierstrass theorem ); hence they are transcendental.
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