aldosterone in English

noun
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a corticosteroid hormone that stimulates absorption of sodium by the kidneys and so regulates water and salt balance.
Progesterone also increases sodium and water excretion in females because of competition between progesterone and aldosterone , a kidney hormone that regulates water balance.

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1. What is an Aldosterone test? An aldosterone (ALD) test measures the amount of ALD in your blood. It’s also called a serum Aldosterone test

2. Refer to Aldosterone/Renin Activity Ratio ( 0070073 ) or Aldosterone and Renin, Direct with Ratio ( 2002582 ).

3. Reduced Na+ evokes renin release, which stimulates Aldosterone secretion; Aldosterone may be measured when evaluating hypertension.

4. An Aldosterone test measures the level of Aldosterone (a hormone made by the adrenal glands), in the blood

5. These tests measure the levels of Aldosterone and renin in the blood and/or the level of Aldosterone in urine

6. Plasma aldosterone levels are decreased by telmisartan

7. What does Aldosterones mean? Plural form of aldosterone

8. Aldosterone receptor Antagonists (also called an antimineralocorticoid, MCRA, and sometimes MRA) are a class of drugs which block the effects of aldosterone

9. What Aldosterone is used for: metabolism and functions

10. Renin is an enzyme that controls Aldosterone production

11. What is an Aldosterone (ALD) test? This test measures the amount of Aldosterone (ALD) in your blood or urine

12. Patients with strongly activated renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system

13. Dual blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system

14. Aldosterone is a mineralcoritcoid and a hormone

15. Aldosterone excess, whether from genetic causes or primary aldosteronism (hyperplasia or Aldosterone-secreting adenomas), is well documented to cause hypertension

16. Plasma aldosterone and renin activity was low throughout anesthesia.

17. There was considerable variation in aldosterone release from the aldosteronomas, whereas the tumors from the Gushing patients showed no detectable release of aldosterone.

18. Aldosterone secretion is controlled by the RAA system and by concentrations of K+ in the circulation, which if increased evokes secretion of Aldosterone

19. Because serum Aldosterone concentrations vary due to dietary sodium intake and body position, some physicians prefer measurement of 24-hour urine concentration for Aldosterone.

20. However, aldosterone “escape” occurs: Even during chronic treatment with ACE-inhibitors, plasma levels of aldosterone rise again, which is associated with increased cardiovascular risk.

21. Indirectly, Aldosterone has an effect on the kidneys.

22. Aldosterone influences bone health both directly and indirectly

23. Aldosterone is produced by the adrenal glands located

24. Aldosterone helps regulate sodium and potassium levels in the body

25. Adrenal adenomas often make aldosterone, but Adrenal cancers rarely do

26. Aldosterone affects the body's ability to regulate blood pressure.

27. Aldosterone: the natural treatment for hearing loss and healthy blood pressure levels The hormone Aldosterone is known to regulate essential salts and blood pressure in the body, but Aldosterone secretion may also hold the key to loss of hearing

28. Primary Aldosteronism is measured by a patient’s aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR)

29. Aldosterone helps regulate sodium and potassium levels in the body

30. The hormone Aldosterone helps the body manage water and sodium

31. The combined Aldosterone/renin tests are preferred when screening for hyperaldosteronism

32. Phenoxybenzamine alsoinhibited the aldosterone release at a concentration of 100 μM. alpha1-Adrenoceptor antagonists from other chemicalclasses had no measurable effect on the aldosterone output from adrenocortical cells in vitro.

33. High Aldosterone levels can cause high blood pressure and low potassium levels

34. The kidney hormone renin normally stimulates the adrenal glands to release Aldosterone.

35. This extra gene contains fragments of 11-beta-hydroxylase and aldosterone synthase.

36. The overall effect of Aldosterone is to increase reabsorption of ions

37. Find out how Aldosterone and ADH cause changes in volume and osmolarity

38. Aldosteronism is the overproduction of the hormone aldosterone by the adrenal glands

39. SC 19886 totally inhibited aldosterone biosynthesis (95%) in a lasting mean.

40. Beyond this well-known action, however, Aldosterone exerts other effects on the k …

41. Aldosterone increases sodium reabsorption by the kidneys, salivary glands, sweat glands and colon

42. Aldosterone is the major mineralocorticoid and is produced by the adrenal cortex.

43. After administration of sedatives, aldosterone antagonists, steroids, and radiation, the patient improved.

44. Myocardial fibrosis is associated with activated circulating or local renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems.

45. Six cases had an aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) and three had a phaeochromocytoma.

46. Aldosterone, acting as a mineralocorticoid, is the final endocrine signal in the renin-angiotensin-Aldosterone system that targets epithelia in the kidney and colon to regulate Na + (re)absorption and K + secretion

47. Doctors measure the levels of sodium, potassium, and Aldosterone in the blood.

48. The role of Aldosterone has expanded from the hormone's genomic effects that involve renal sodium transport to nongenomic effects that are independent of the effect of Aldosterone on sodium transport

49. 'We wondered if aldosterone might somehow work through CaM kinase and, if it did, [whether] some of the benefits of aldosterone blockers [could] be attributed to effects on CaM kinase,' Professor Anderson explains.

50. Aldosterone, a steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal glands. Aldosterone serves as the principal regulator of the salt and water balance of the body and thus is categorized as a mineralocorticoid