title: [Functional state of the hypophyseo-adrenal system in patients with chronic alcoholism and various degrees of liver damage].
abstract: Chronic alcohol poisoning causes functional discoordination of the pituitary-adrenal complex expressed in suppression of the steroidogenesis of the adrenal cortex and in pituitary hyperproduction of ACTH. There is an interrelationship between the functional activity of the adrenal cortex and the severity of alcoholic involvement of the liver and between the intactness of pituitary function and the liver status. Antialcoholic treatment in conditions of complete alcohol abstinence leads to the normalization of ACTH levels in the peripheral blood whereas the steroidogenesis fails to be fully recovered.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Borodulin
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Zubovskiĭ
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Avdienko
mesh_terms: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000378:metabolism; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000450:Aldosterone / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000378:metabolism; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010913:Pituitary-Adrenal System / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D000450:Aldosterone; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; D006854:Hydrocortisone
vernacular_title: Funktsiia gipofizarno-nadpochechnikovoĭ sistemy u bol'nykh khronicheskim alkogolizmom s raznoĭ stepen'iu porazheniia pecheni.