Endocrine Abstracts

The differences between the adrenocortical zones have attracted much attention.There is considerable species variation, but the prevailing view is that each zone has steroidogenic activities, with varying specificity.Thus, the zona reticularis in the adult adrenal is thought to produce rather more C19 steroids than the fasciculata, though this difference is not absolute. In most species, the greatest differences between the steroidogenic funct...