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B) Chapter 37 1. Note the two main steroids produced by the adrenal gland. What are their functions? 2. What lab tests does the nurse monitor for patients on steroid therapy 3. What instructions does the nurse provide to a patient on steroid therapy? 4. How should a patient take ordered steroids? 5. What is meant by tapering off steroids? 6. What are the adverse effects of steroids 7. Where are the adrenal glands located and what are the two parts of the adrenal glands called? Good luck to you all! ni tre re

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1. Note the two main steroids produced by the adrenal gland. what are their functions?

Steroid hormone, any of a group of hormones that belong to the class of chemical compoundsknown as steroids; they are secreted by three “steroid glands”—the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries—and during pregnancy by the placenta.  All steroid hormones are gotten from cholesterol. They are transported through the circulatory system to the cells of different target organs where they do the direction of a wide scope of physiological capacities.

These hormones often are classified according to the organs that synthesize them: the adrenal steroids are so called because they are secreted by the adrenal cortex, and the sex hormones are those produced by the ovaries and testes.  This qualification isn't selective, be that as it may, in light of the fact that the adrenal cortex likewise secretes sex hormones, yet to a lesser degree than do the gonads, and the ovaries under anomalous conditions may create adrenal steroids. The adrenal cortex produces the adrenocortical hormones, which consist of the glucocorticoids and the mineralocorticoids. Glucocorticoids such as cortisol control or influence many metabolic processes, including the formation of glucose from amino acids and fatty acids and the deposition of glycogen in the liver.

Glucocorticoids likewise help to keep up ordinary circulatory strain, and their mitigating and immunosuppressive activities have rendered them valuable in treating rheumatoid joint pain and keeping the dismissal of transplanted organs. Mineralocorticoids, for example, aldosterone help keep up the harmony among water and salts in the body, prevalently applying their belongings inside the kidney.

Estrogens are one of the two types of female sex hormones. They are secreted mainly by the ovaries and in smaller amounts by the adrenal glands and (in men) by the testes. Estradiol is the most potent of the estrogens. Working correspondingly to androgens, the estrogens advance the improvement of the essential and optional female sex attributes; they additionally invigorate straight development and skeletal development. In different warm blooded creatures these hormones have been appeared hasten estrus (heat). The ovarian generation of estrogen plunges amid menopause.

Tissue area Hormones released Examples Connective tissue- capsule Zona glomerulosaMineralcorticoidsAldosterone (adrenal cortex) batanco) Adrenal gland Zona fasciculataGlucocorticoldsCortisol (adrenal cortex) (regulate glucose Corticosterone metabolism) Cortisone Cortex -Modulla -Zona reticularisAndrogens Dehydrcepian- drosterone (adrenal cortex) stmulate masculinization) L Superior surtace of kidney Adrenal medula Stress hormonsEpinephrine (stimulate sympathetic ANS) Norepinephrine

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