Abstract
Summary
In gonadectomized animals treated with 10% formalin solution there occurred a marked hypertrophy of the adrenal glands, but no significant change in the size of the accessory sex organs (vaginal smear and preputial glands in the female; seminal vesicles and prostate in the male).
It is concluded that the adrenal cortical hypertrophy, so characteristic of the alarm reaction, is not accompanied by increased sex hormone production.
The cost of this investigation was defrayed by a grant from the Blanche E. Hutchinson Fund of McGill University administered by Professor Hans Sclye.
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