Cortisone
"Cortisone" 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.
A naturally occurring glucocorticoid. It has been used in replacement therapy for adrenal insufficiency and as an anti-inflammatory agent. Cortisone itself is inactive. It is converted in the liver to the active metabolite HYDROCORTISONE. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p726)
Descriptor ID |
D003348
|
MeSH Number(s) |
D04.808.745.745.183 D06.472.040.585.478.195
|
Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cortisone".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cortisone".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cortisone" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Cortisone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
---|
2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Cortisone" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
-
Stirrat LI, O'Reilly JR, Barr SM, Andrew R, Riley SC, Howie AF, Bowman M, Smith R, Lewis JG, Denison FC, Forbes S, Seckl JR, Walker BR, Norman JE, Reynolds RM. Decreased maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in very severely obese pregnancy: Associations with birthweight and gestation at delivery. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2016 Jan; 63:135-43.
-
Kilgour AH, Semple S, Marshall I, Andrews P, Andrew R, Walker BR. 11?-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in the brain does not contribute to systemic interconversion of cortisol and cortisone in healthy men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Feb; 100(2):483-9.
|
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|