Adrenal androgen stimulating hormone (AASH), also known as cortical androgen stimulating hormone (CASH), is a hypothetical hormone which has been proposed to stimulate the adrenal glands to produce adrenal androgens such as dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), and androstenedione (A4).
[1][2] It is hypothesized to be involved in adrenarche and adrenopause.
[1][2] The existence of this hormone is controversial and disputed and it has not been identified to date.
[1] A number of other mechanisms and/or hormones may instead play the functional role of the so-called AASH.
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