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Axons whose terminals release norepinephrine.  

A drug acting at the sympathetic nerve endings to reduce the effectiveness of norepinephrine. Different drugs can block the alpha, beta-1, and beta-2 functions selectively.  

The increase in adrenal androgens that occurs several years before puberty in males. Changes that occur at puberty as a result of increased secretion of adrenocortical hormones.  

The inner portion of the adrenal glands that secrete the hormone epinephrine adrenal cortex. The inner part of the adrenal gland which secretes adrenaline and noradrenaline. The central tissue of the adrenal (suprarenal) gland. It is filled with chromaffin cells (pheochromocytes), which are derived from the neural crest and are very much like postsynaptic sympathetic…

The surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands. Surgical removal of the adrenal gland. Excision of one or both adrenal glands.  

Hormones secreted by the adrenal glands that regulate the development of secondary sex characteristics particularly associated with masculinity.  

A method of testing genetic theories of abnormal behavior by studying mental illness in biological and adoptive parents and in adopted children.  

In psychology, the decision to make full use of a new idea as the best course of available action. Assumption of responsibility for the care of a child by a person or persons who are not the biological parents. This usually requires a legal procedure. The legal process by which parents take another person’s child…

A period of fast bone growth that usually occurs in the early or middle teens and is caused by the rising levels of the sex hormones of puberty.