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cortex

In biology, the outer part of a structure such as the brain, kidney, or adrenal gland. In botany the cortex includes nonspecialized cells lying just beneath the surface cells of the root and stem.



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It reflects a delay in the synchronization of changes in the level of blood cortisol, the major steroid produced by the adrenal cortex
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He shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the hormones of the adrenal cortex.
 
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