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Article: Diagnosis: adrenal disease: early diagnosis and treatment may help. But neither Cushing's nor Addison's disease can be prevented or truly cured.
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- Cat Watch
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Every single moment of its life, whether fast asleep or wide awake, your cat's physical well-being relies on the efficient and nonstop functioning of its endocrine system--an array of small organs (glands) that manufacture life-sustaining chemicals called hormones and deliver them directly into the animal's bloodstream. Among the components of this elaborate system, none is more vitally important than the adrenal glands, a pair of tiny, bean-shaped masses of tissue--one on each side of your cat's abdomen--situated just in front of its kidneys.
In the great majority of cats, these glands operate efficiently and without letup throughout an animal's life. Some cats, ...