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Increased extracellular signal regulated kinases phosphorylation in the adrenal gland in response to chronic ACTH treatment
Journal of Endocrinology, 03/05/07
Jorge G Ferreira, et al. - ACTH released from the pituitary acts through activation of cAMP/PKA in adrenocortical cells stimulating steroidogenesis. Although ACTH was originally thought to have anti-proliferative effects on the adrenal, recently it has been described that it could also have proliferative effects acting through other signalling cascades. This is also relevant in humans given the increased levels of ACTH occurring together with adrenal cortex hyperplasia observed in Cushing’s disease and possibly in other situations such as chronic stress
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