Adrenal Cortical Function in Chronic Schizophrenia (Stress, Adrenaline-Test, Acth-Test)

Faurbye, Arild; Vestergaard, Per; Kobbernagel, Finn; Nielsen, A P

doi:10.1530/acta.0.0080215

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A D R E N a L C O R T E X I N S C R I Z O P H R E N I A1

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“…The Worcester groups' findings of subnormal adrenocortical reactivity have met with a mixed response. Faurbye, et al (79) found that the response to ACTH in 17-ketosteroid excretion, uric acid, and potassium excretion, and the effect on lymphocytes and eosinophils, was subnormal in about one-half of the schizophrenic group studied (ten patients, ten controls). Similarly, tlie effect of epinephrine on the eosinophils was below normal in six out of eleven patients (eleven patients, nine controls) and was equivocal on the excretion of seventeen ketosteroids.…”

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