The Pathway Ontology (PW), is currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about this vocabulary, please see Petri et al. The rat genome database pathway portal. Database (Oxford). 2011 Apr 8;2011:bar010. Print 2011 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
Those metabolic reactions involved in the synthesis of aldosterone, a C21 mineralocorticoid produced in the outer zone, the zona glomerulosa, of the adrenal cortex from cholesterol as the precursor. It plays important roles in the regulation of water and salt balance.