"Cosyntropin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A synthetic peptide that is identical to the 24-amino acid segment at the N-terminal of ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE. ACTH (1-24), a segment similar in all species, contains the biological activity that stimulates production of CORTICOSTEROIDS in the ADRENAL CORTEX.
| Descriptor ID |
D003366
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.699.327.935.531.500.200 D06.472.699.631.525.600.531.500.200 D12.644.400.400.935.531.500.200 D12.644.548.365.935.531.500.200 D12.644.548.691.525.690.531.500.200 D12.776.631.650.405.935.531.500.200
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| Concept/Terms |
Cosyntropin- Cosyntropin
- ACTH 1-24
- Corticotropin (1-24)-Peptide
- Corticotropin (1-24)-Tetracosapeptide
- ACTH (1-24)
- Tetracosactide
- Tetracosactrin
- Tetracosapeptide
- 1-24-Corticotropin
- 1-24-ACTH
- Synthetic ACTH
- ACTH, Synthetic
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