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juxtaglomerular apparatus (medicine) and secondary dementia (medicine)


juxtaglomerular apparatus (medicine)


juxtaglomerular apparatus


A collective term for the juxtaglomerular cells in a nephron. These are specialised cells containing secretory granules, located in the tunica media of the afferent glomerular arterioles. They are receptors thought to stimulate secretion of the adrenal hormone aldosterone and to play a major role in renal autoregulation.


secondary dementia (medicine)


secondary dementia
Chronic dementia following and due to a psychosis or some Other underlying disease process.

Senile dementia, dementia of Alzheimer's disease developing after age 65.

Toxic dementia, dementia caused by an exogenous agent.