Eosinopenic reaction and the content of 17-ketosteroids in urine during treatment with steroid hormones

Soviet researchers (A. A. Atabek, A. L. Myasnikov, V. F. Zaitsev, B. B. Kogan and I. G. Danielyak, A. I. Nesterov, E. M. Tareev) have accumulated vast experience in the treatment of steroid hormones of various pathological processes (collagenosis, diseases of the blood system, bronchial asthma). The positive effect of treatment with steroid hormones is due either to the stimulation of the function of the adrenal cortex (in the treatment of ACTH), or the replacement of the hormone missing in the body (with the introduction of cortisone, prednisone, andresone). In both cases, the disturbed odaotative function of the pituitary gland - adrenal cortex is restored, which brings biochemical processes in the collagen system closer to normalization and improves the clinical course of the disease (E. M. Tareev, A. I. Nesterov).