Lucero_Glucocorticoids

GLUCOCORTICOIDS


 * Location**: Adrenal Cortex
 * Type of Gland:** Steroid


 * Glucocorticoids**: mobilizes cellular fuel and reinforces the effects of glucagon. It also promotes the synthesis of glucose from proteins and fats. In addition, it increases blood glucose.

Glucagon: controls maintenance of a precise homeostatic balance in the blood and amount of glucose stored in the polymer glycogen in body cells. Manage both fuel storage and fuel use by body cells

When the body cells consume more glucose than the liver can provide from glycogen stores, glucocorticoids stimulates the breakdown of muscle proteins making amino acids available for conversion to glucose by the liver. As a result, it makes more glucose available in the blood as cellular fuel in response to stress.

High levels of glucocorticoids in the blood can suppress body’s defense system. Physicians may use glucocoticoids to treat diseases in which excessive inflammation is a problem since it relives swelling and pain from inflammation, but by suppressing immunity. It can also make a person highly susceptible to infection