Ectopic adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and c
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Ilias Vrezas; Holger S. Willenberg; Georg Mansmann; Naoki Hiroi; Reimar Fritzen;
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis is integrated in the human stress system and controls the metabolism of many cell systems in the body. Therefore, hypofunction or hyperfunction of the HPA axis potentially threatens the life of the whole organism. Noncontrolled overproductio