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A.  Effects and Symptoms of Adrenocortical Hormone Excess
                                                          Lipolysis
                Polycythemia,
                leukocytosis,  Gluconeogenesis   Free fatty acids
                eosinopenia
                         1                               Ketone bodies
                               Hyperglycemia
                             2
                                 Diabetes
          Lymphopenia,                                   VLDL
          inhibition of immune defenses  Insulin
          4     Susceptibility                    3    Lipogenesis
                to infection
                                                 Redistribution
                   Neuropsychological            of fat tissue
                   disorders
                                               Moon face               Cushing’s Disease
          Protein
          breakdown   CaHPO 4                  ‘Buffalo’ hump
                                               Truncal obesity
                     Osteoporosis
                                                                       Plate 9.7
            5
                                                   Thrombocytosis
              Muscular  Striae                        Clotting
             weakness:                            6
             thin limbs                                Atherosclerosis

              Purpura
                                                           Blood
              Delayed
           wound healing                      in children:  pressure
                                                 Growth


                                            Sensitization to
         Gastric acid and                   catecholamines
         pepsin secretion                                7
                                     Cardiac
                                     output   Peripheral
          Mucus secretion                     resistance
         8
              Gastric and
              duodenal ulcers  Transport in
                           distal nephron   Na +                10
                                       Na +  Mg 2+
          Androgens  9                      H +         Neuromuscular
                                                        excitability
                              H +           K +
               Hirsutism,        K +
               amenorrhea
             Precocious            Electrolyte disturbances  Renal damage
             pseudopuberty                                            269

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