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Adrenal insufficiency
During stress response, the central nervous system (CNS) induces activation of both the sympathoadrenergic system (by release of catecholamines) and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis (by release of steroid hormones, glucocorticoids [GCs], and mineralocorticoids), with the target of maintaining homeostasis by…