The diffuse enlargement of the pituitary can also mimic pituitary hyperplasia (e.g., thyroid-stimulating hormone hyperplasia in hypothyroidism and pituitary hyperplasia in pregnancy).

This second phase is caused by an uncontrolled release of AVP from either degenerating posterior pituitary tissue, or from the remaining magnocellular neurons whose axons have been severed (Figure ...

The anterior pituitary gland is comprised of specialized cell-types that produce and secrete polypeptide hormones in response to hypothalamic input and feedback from target organs. These specialized ...

This paper presents a new sensor management method for multitarget filtering, that is designed based on maximizing a measure of confidence in accuracy of the multitarget state estimate. Confidence of ...

The ban on Iowa Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapy used for treating gender dysphoria is included in House File 1049, a budget bill that appropriates $2.47 ...

The heterogeneity of human endogenous growth hormone (GH) is used in doping control analysis to distinguish it from the homogeneous recombinant analogue in plasma samples. Pituitary GH variants were ...