腎上腺皮貭激素在現代医学上的价值及其重要性,可以与磺胺类药物及抗菌素相比拟,过去許多束手无药的絕症,它却能有效甚至能起死回生。近几年来,有机和药物化学家在改良天然类固醇激素的結构以促进它的某种生理活力或抑制其副作用等方面,竞相研究,已获得了許多更优良的药物。 The value and importance of adrenal hormones in modern medicine can be compared with sulfa drugs and antibiotics. In the past many incurable terminal illnesses, it was effective and even able to revive. In recent years, organic and medicinal chemists have been competing in the field of improving the structure of natural steroid hormones to promote some of its physiological activities or to inhibit its side effects, and many more excellent drugs have been obtained.