Corticotropin

Related Category: Biochemistry

(kôr´´təkōtrōp´ən): see adrenocorticotropic hormone.

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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone - polypeptide hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Its chief function is to stimulate the cortex of the adrenal gland to secrete adrenocortical steroids, chief among them cortisone. The re...