Assertion: glucocorticoid | /r/HasProperty | essential
Facets:
value: for life
type: PURPOSE
value: in these two roles
type: OTHER
value: to life
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for survival
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Glucocorticoids are corticosteroid hormones, which are a class of essential steroid hormones, secreted from the adrenal glands, that are essential for life and are important in the regulation of adaptation to stress, carbohydrate-, protein-, fat-, calcium- and bone-metabolism, immune function, growth and behavioral regulation by acting as end products of the stress-responsive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis .
text: Glucocorticoids are essential to life and after removal of both adrenals humans will not survive for long without glucocorticoid replacement.
text: In these two roles, glucocorticoids are in fact essential for survival.
text: Glucocorticoids from the zona fasiculata are essential for the body to function as they are involved in energy metabolism and assist in resisting stress.
text: Since glucocorticoids are essential for life, other cellular signaling pathways strongly regulate GR actions in many different ways, such as physical interaction via their effector transcription factors and epigenetic modifications including phosphorylation and acetylation.