The pituitary gland is small and oval-shaped. It’s located behind your nose, near the underside of your brain. It’s attached to the hypothalamus by a stalklike structure. The hypothalamus is a small ...

Your endocrine system controls all of your hormones. It’s made up of many different glands, including the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland (including the anterior pituitary) plays a significant ...

Abstract The endocrine system consists of glands and tissues that produce and secrete hormones to regulate and coordinate vital bodily functions. This article, the second in an eight-part series on ...

The pituitary gland functions as a relay between hypothalamus to peripheral target organs and plays a central role in regulating homeostasis, metabolism, growth, reproduction and lactation 1,2. It is ...

The pituitary gland is a structure located at the base of the brain, which dictates and manages the functions of the majority of other endocrine glands throughout the body. The pituitary gland has ...

It releases hormones that regulate metabolismMedically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MDFact checked by Nick BlackmerThe thyroid gland is part of the endocrine system (along with the adrenal glands, ...

Researchers have grown a mouse pituitary gland for the first time from embryonic stem cells. Or rather, the pituitary gland grew itself, after Japanese researchers coaxed embryonic stem cells to form ...

METASTATIC tumors in the brain occur in approximately 5 per cent of all fatal cases of cancer, according to Willis. 1 A survey of 3946 consecutive autopsies by Earle 2 suggests that metastatic brain ...