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MINERALOCORTICOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mineralocorticoid" is a kind of...):
adrenal cortical steroid; corticoid; corticosteroid (a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mineralocorticoid"):
aldosterone (a corticosteroid hormone that is secreted by the cortex of the adrenal gland; regulates salt (sodium and potassium) and water balance)
Context examples:
It secretes mineralocorticoids, androgens, and glucocorticoids.
(Adrenal cortex, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Aldosterone is a type of mineralocorticoid hormone.
(Aldosterone, NCI Dictionary)
An inactivating and detoxification pathway for a variety of exogenous and endogenous molecules, including drugs, pollutants, bilirubin, androgens, estrogens, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, fatty acid derivatives, retinoids and bile acids.
(Glucuronidation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus)
These proteins, stress hormone receptors known as the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), act in concert to help support heart health.
(Healthy hearts need two proteins working together, National Institutes of Health)
Furturene is able to antagonize aldosterone at the mineralocorticoid receptor in the kidneys, thereby increasing sodium excretion while inhibiting potassium excretion.
(Furterene, NCI Thesaurus)
Hydrocortisone sodium succinate is chemically similar to the endogenous hormone that stimulates anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive activities, in addition to exhibiting minor mineralocorticoid effects.
(Hydrocortisone Sodium Succinate, NCI Thesaurus)
Azolimine antagonizes aldosterone at the mineralocorticoid receptor in the kidneys, thereby increasing sodium excretion and inhibiting potassium excretion.
(Azolimine, NCI Thesaurus)
Hormones synthesized in the cortex of the adrenal gland and consist of two subclasses, glucocorticoids (carbohydrate regulation) and mineralocorticoids (electrolyte regulation).
(Corticosteroid, NCI Thesaurus)
An adrenocortical steroid that has modest but significant activities as a mineralocorticoid and a glucocorticoid.
(Corticosterone, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Mespirenone, after in vivo metabolization, inhibits aldosterone synthase (steroid 18-hydroxylase), thereby preventing the synthesis of aldosterone in addition to the synthesis of other mineralocorticoids.
(Mespirenone, NCI Thesaurus)
