Experiments on rats showed that long-term styrene exposure suppresses both specific and nonspecific cell metabolic indices in different adrenocortical areas. However, the sensitivity of the different areas proved to vary under styrene exposure. This allows the suggestion that each area undergoes different degree of damage which brings about the disturbance of optimum correlations between various functions of the adrenal cortex.
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September 1981
Patients with chronic renal failure often reveal a peculiar "uremic gastropathy" characterized by a decreased secretory activity of the gastric glands. Most of such patients should not be referred to the group of high risk of ulceration. This point is extremely important, when cases are screened for kidney transplantation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new approach to the analysis of the neuroendocrine system (NES) is suggested. It is based on the fact of structural and metabolic determination of any effect on cell and cell aggregates. The principle of a common communication channel in the NES is formulated and a possible method of its formalization is proposed.
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