The Effect of Glucose on the Circulating Eosinophils

Does Glucose Stimulate Adrenocortical Activity?

“…A depression of the lymphocyte count served as the criterion of corticosteroid discharge though Drury 5 and Jordan, Last, Pitesky and Bond 3 described glucose induced eosinopenia in laboratory animals and Hungerland and Raming 6 and Artunkel 7 reported the latter phenomenon in humans . Recant et al 8 , however, failed to produce a significant fall in circulating eosinophils in eight normal subjects after the intravenous injection of glucose. Steeples and Jensen 9 reported that in the white rat glucose inhibited the release of adrenal cortical hormones and Skelton 10 found no adrenal cholesterol or ascorbic acid depletion after glucose though the response to corticotropin was enhanced.…”