Steroid Hormones: Overview and Medical Applications

    January 2016 in “ Elsevier eBooks ”
    Ruben Vardanyan, Victor J. Hruby
    Studysummary This article discusses the various roles of steroids in vertebrate organ systems and notes several glucocorticoids that were among the Top 200 Drugs by sales in the 2010s, but it reports no new clinical findings.
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