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In an Effort to Impress Her Physiology Instructor, Your Roommate

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In an effort to impress her physiology instructor, your roommate did an Internet search on cortisol.In her exuberance, she failed to read the book chapter, the instructor has not yet lectured on this chapter, and frankly she knows next to nothing about this hormone.She discovers such seemingly unrelated therapeutic effects as treatment for bee stings and rejection of transplanted organs.You, however, completed your physiology course last semester, and she turns to you for enlightenment.What can you tell her about some other therapeutic uses for cortisol, and what functional connections do these illustrate? What are some of the negative side effects?


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Statistical Control

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