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Cortisone != cortisol

As far as I can judge, this article describes the hormone cortisol not cortisone. Cortisone, in my vocabulary, is a medical substance acting like cortisol. I am however not bold enough to go ahead mess around with this in English, not being a native English speaker - but if no objections arrive I will adjust this article according to my view on the subject. // Habj 19:59, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, cortisone is synthetic cortisol. Also, Corticosterone is refered to here as unimportant. Yes, in human health as humans do not express it: It is the rodent version of cortisol. The claim that cortisol/cortisone is responsible for stress/ill-health correlation is oversimplistic. 1. In chronic stress cort. becomes downregulated and AVP becomes the major driver of the HPA axis, and hence the major driver of immune inhibition; 2. The autonomic nervous system also plays a major role in damping down immune responses during stress; 3. Autoimmune diseases actually benefit from high cortisol levels. There are many other substances that mediate immune supression eg substance P, NF kappa beta etc. It seems to be a problem here that the chemistry project run pages on biological molecules are over-simplistic wrt to the biology. Is there no biochemistry/cellular biology project similar to the chemistry one? I support the above edit.Povmcdov 15:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Differs in presentation from image currenly in article

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Leonard G. (talk • contribs) 06:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Be careful! There is a mistake in the article: this is not a steroid-like structure on the picture! Look on the right for the structure:

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