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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone

"Adrenocorticotropic Hormone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the ADRENAL CORTEX and its production of CORTICOSTEROIDS. ACTH is a 39-amino acid polypeptide of which the N-terminal 24-amino acid segment is identical in all species and contains the adrenocorticotrophic activity. Upon further tissue-specific processing, ACTH can yield ALPHA-MSH and corticotrophin-like intermediate lobe peptide (CLIP).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Adrenocorticotropic Hormone" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Adrenocorticotropic Hormone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1998 and 2000 and 2016 and 2017 and 2022
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