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. 2011 Aug;80(3):231-3.
doi: 10.1038/ki.2011.131.

Progesterone: not just a sex hormone anymore?

Charles S Wingo  1 , Megan M Greenlee
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Progesterone: not just a sex hormone anymore?

Charles S Wingo et al. Kidney Int. 2011 Aug.
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Abstract

The adrenal cortex synthesizes many steroids, but the mineralocorticoid aldosterone and the glucocorticoids cortisol and corticosteroid have been viewed as the principal steroids responsible for regulation of renal electrolyte excretion. A study by Elabida et al. challenges that paradigm and suggests that progesterone, classically viewed as a sex steroid, also participates in renal electrolyte balance.

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