Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index

Cortisol

Cortisol is a steroid hormone produced in the cortex of the adrenal glands. " Stress" in the body allegedly increases the secretion of cortisol.

Fact-index.com financially supports the Wikimedia Foundation. Displaying this page does not burden Wikipedia hardware resources.
This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.