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Mineralocorticoid is a corticosteroid hormone, that is synthesized by means of the adrenal cortex. Aldosterone, the main mineralocorticoid, is essential for regulation of salt and water within the body. It will increase sodium re-absorption through an action on the distal tubules of the kidney.

The time period “mineralocorticoid” is used to explain those movements of adrenal corticosteroids generating sodium and fluid retention and potassium excretion. The most critical physiological mineralocorticoid is aldosterone, which, like other mineralocorticoids, acts on a particular mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). The classical effects of activating this receptor are exerted via modulation of the transcription rates of numerous genes, which include those encoding sub-units of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and the Na+K+ATPase Cole and Pierce (2001). It is now everyday that aldosterone and different mineralocorticoids exert speedy, non-genomic moves Funder (2001), which may be mediated by the classical MR or via other, as yet ill-described receptors. Cortisol generally lacks substantial .Mineralocorticoid activity due to the fact it's miles unexpectedly oxidized by the excessive affinity, type 2 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase expressed inhigh ranges in the kidney and colon Ferrari and Krozowski (2000). Mutations in the gene for this enzyme (HSD11B2 gene) result in a syndrome called obvious mineralocorticoid excess (AME) because of immoderate activation of the mineralocorticoid receptor with the aid of cortisol. Other endogenously produced compounds with mineralocorticoid interest are 11-deoxycorticosterone, 18-hydroxydeoxycorticosterone, corticosterone and 19-nordeoxycorticocosterone White (2001). The only artificial mineralocorticoid used clinically is fludrocortisone.

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