The importance of tile adrenal cortex in influencing sodium and potassium metabolism is well established. The adrenal cortex secretes a number of steroid hormones which affect sodium and potassium excretion to varying degrees. The hormone which is the most potent in its sodium retaining effect is aldosterone. It promotes the sodium reabsorption for the exchange of potassium or hydrogen ion in the distal tubules of the kidney. There are several problems which are not well understood, e.g. the physiological importance of the rate of secretion of various steroids, the synergistic or antagonistic action of various adrenal cortical hormones on the absorption, distribution and excretion of electrolyte and their interplay with each other.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113794 |
| Date | January 1962 |
| Creators | Uete, Tetsuo. |
| Contributors | Venning, E. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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