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Mineralocorticoids

Known as: mineralocorticosteroid, mineralocorticosteroids, Mineralocorticoid 
A group of CORTICOSTEROIDS primarily associated with water and electrolyte balance. This is accomplished through the effect on ION TRANSPORT in renal… 
National Institutes of Health

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Broader (2)

Adrenal Cortex HormonesSteroid hormone

Narrower (3)

AldosteroneDesoxycorticosterone acetatedesoxycorticosterone
FludrocortisoneIn BloodNeurosteroidsProcess of secretion

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Abiraterone in metastatic prostate cancer without previous chemotherapy.
BACKGROUND Abiraterone acetate, an androgen biosynthesis inhibitor, improves overall survival in patients with metastatic… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Abiraterone and increased survival in metastatic prostate cancer.
BACKGROUND Biosynthesis of extragonadal androgen may contribute to the progression of castration-resistant prostate cancer. We… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Mineralocorticoid receptors are indispensable for nongenomic modulation of hippocampal glutamate transmission by corticosterone.
The adrenal hormone corticosterone transcriptionally regulates responsive genes in the rodent hippocampus through nuclear… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Stress and cognition: are corticosteroids good or bad guys?
Review
1998
Review
1998
Angiotensin, thirst, and sodium appetite.
Angiotensin (ANG) II is a powerful and phylogenetically widespread stimulus to thirst and sodium appetite. When it is injected… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Mineralocorticoids, hypertension, and cardiac fibrosis.
Uninephrectomized rats drinking 1% sodium chloride were given aldosterone (Aldo, 0.75 microgram/h, subcutaneous [s.c.] infusion… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Mineralocorticoid excess, dietary sodium, and myocardial fibrosis.
  • C. Brilla, K. Weber
  • The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 12528414
Unlike the non-renin-dependent hypertension associated with infrarenal aorta banding, an abnormal accumulation of fibrillar… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Mineralocorticoid action: target tissue specificity is enzyme, not receptor, mediated.
Mineralocorticoid receptors, both when in tissue extracts and when recombinant-derived, have equal affinity for the physiological… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Cloning of human mineralocorticoid receptor complementary DNA: structural and functional kinship with the glucocorticoid receptor.
Low-stringency hybridization with human glucocorticoid receptor (hGR) complementary DNA was used to isolate a new gene encoding a… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Two receptor systems for corticosterone in rat brain: microdistribution and differential occupation.
Two receptor systems for corticosterone (CORT) can be distinguished in rat brain: mineralocorticoid-like or CORT receptors (CR… 
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