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Desoxycortone

A mineralocorticoid hormone made by the adrenal cortex from progesterone and a precursor of aldosterone: it makes the body retain sodium and water and, as the synthetic acetate, has been used since the late 1930s for adrenal insufficiency. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?In 1939 George Thorn, at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, treated adrenal insufficiency by implanting small pellets of the synthetic hormone under the skin, which released it little by little.