Adrenal androgen-stimulating hormone

Adrenal androgen stimulating hormone, also known as cortical androgen stimulating hormone, is a hypothetical hormone which has been proposed to stimulate the adrenal glands to produce adrenal androgens such as dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, and androstenedione. It is hypothesized to be involved in adrenarche and adrenopause. The existence of this hormone is controversial and disputed and it has not been identified to date. A number of other mechanisms and/or hormones may instead play the functional role of the so-called AASH.