[Influence of destruction of the subcommissural organ on the glomerular zone of the adrenal cortex].

Experiments were conducted on 30 rats; a study was made of the morphometric and quantitative enzymatico-chemical changes in the glomerular zone of the adrenal cortex in stereotaxic disturbance of the subcomissural organ; there was established a marked atrophy of the glomerular zone, a significant reduction of the diameter of the nuclei of the adrenocorticocytes and depression in these structures of the enzymatic activity of the energy metabolism. Histophysiological characteristics of the glomerular zone can be assessed as its hypofunctional condition and indicates an association between the functional activity of the subcommissural organ and the production of aldosterone.