Acromegaly is a condition that most often happens when your pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of your brain (orange) makes too much growth hormone after your body has otherwise already stopped ...

The pituicytes, a subtype of the astroglia—star-shaped cells of the nervous system—were known to facilitate the release of ...

(3) After all of the AVP stored in the posterior pituitary gland has been released, a third phase of diabetes insipidus develops if >80-90% of the AVP-secreting neuronal cell bodies in the ...

Popular videos and social media posts have identified cortisol as the main culprit behind facial puffiness, but many ...

I began my medical career in psychiatry, which was when I developed an interest in insomnia and its effect on wellbeing.

Spend more than 5 minutes on Instagram or TikTok – especially as a woman of a certain age – and you are likely to meet a fit, attractive person showing you what they ate today. It is usually a ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion. In response to incoming food, these hormones are secreted by rare hormone producing ...

The theory of Ralli et al. 16 that the ascites is due to an antidiuretic hormone — possibly to failure of the diseased liver to destroy posterior pituitary antidiuretic hormone — is an ...

In the upper and posterior part of the ... understanding of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, current treatment of hypopituitarism primarily involves direct hormone replacement.

Estrogen and progesterone are the primary female hormones related to reproduction. When ovarian function declines with age, ovulation doesn’t occur regularly. This leads to irregular or missed ...

In a 1932 Times story headlined "Chemistry Teacher Finds Boon to Motherhood," Grote said scientists had known since 1902 that extracts of the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland were valuable in ...