The role of adrenal steroids in infection and immunity.

摘要: THE adrenal cortex has long been regarded as playing an important role in resistance to infectious disease, but the therapeutic potentialities of cortical hormones infections have under considerable question patients other than those with Addison's disease. The recently demonstrated responses diverse inflammatory and neoplastic disorders administration pituitary adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) or cortisone1 2 3 4 indicate that fundamental mechanisms host are affected by hormones. Our interest centered on some these mechanisms, through studies acute diseases which etiology, pathogenesis immunologic . . .