{"id":7230,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adrenal_cortex\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:37","slug":"adrenal_cortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adrenal_cortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrenal cortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outermost layer of the adrenal gland derived from mesoderm situated on top of the kidneys that releases corticosteroid hormones into the blood stream in response to stress. &nbsp;Some cells in the adrenal cortex form part of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adrenal_medulla\">Adrenal medulla<\/a>, <a href=\"androgen\">Androgen<\/a>, <a href=\"autonomic_nervous_system_-ans-\">Autonomic nervous system (ANS)<\/a>, <a href=\"corticosteroids\">Corticosteroids<\/a>, <a href=\"cortisol\">Cortisol<\/a>, <a href=\"corticotropin-releasing_hormone_-crh-\">Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)<\/a>, <a href=\"estrogen\">Estrogen<\/a>, <a href=\"hormones\">Hormones<\/a>, <a href=\"hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal_-hpa-_axis\">Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis<\/a>, <a href=\"sex_ratio\">Sex ratio<\/a>, Testosterone<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outermost layer of the adrenal gland derived from mesoderm situated on top of the kidneys that releases corticosteroid hormones into the blood stream in response to stress. &nbsp;Some cells in the adrenal cortex form part of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. See Adrenal medulla, Androgen, Autonomic nervous system (ANS), Corticosteroids, Cortisol, Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), Estrogen, Hormones, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adrenal_cortex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adrenal cortex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}