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Article: Research conducted at University of Pittsburgh has provided new information about congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- December 3, 2008
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"The congenital adrenal hyperplasias are a group of autosomal recessive disorders associated with impaired steroidogenesis. Several types of the congenital adrenal hyperplasias are associated with decreased cortisol production and excessive adrenal sex steroid secretion," scientists writing in the journal Dermatologic Therapy report (see also Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia).
"Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is the most common and prototypic example of this group of disorders. Herein, we review the clinical features, pathophysiology, molecular genetics, and treatment of 21-hydroxylase deficiency," wrote C. Demirci and colleagues, ...