Hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex and their functions

Question

Name and describe the hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex and brief their respective functions?

Answer 1

The cortical part of the adrenals secretes hormones of the corticoid (or corticosteroid) set, obtaind from cholesterol: glucocorticoid,  mineralocorticoids as well as cortical sex Hormones. The glucocorticoids are cortisone and cortisol. Glucocorticoids stimulate the making of glucose from the degradation of proteins of the muscle tissue (i.e. gluconeogenesis) therefore they help to raise glycemia. These hormones play an significant immunosuppressant role, i.e., they decrease the act of the immune system and for that basis they are used as medicine to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and dismissal of transplanted organs. The deoxycorticosterone and mineralocorticoids aldosterone regulate the potassium and sodium blood concentration and so they manage the water stage of the extracellular space. Aldosterone raises the sodium resorption and so the water resorption in the renal tubules and this in addition stimulates the renal excretion of potassium and hydrogen. The adrenal cortical sex hormones be androgens, male sex hormones present in females and males. In males their major site of production is the testicle and they endorse the look of secondary male sex characteristics, such as body hair and beard, the male pattern of fat distribution, deep voice and maturation of the genitalia. But if  unusually high in women they cause disturbances of the menstrual cycle and inhibited maturation of the female genitalia.