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| | anterior pituitary (adenohypophysis) |
 | | Identification of bombesin-immunoreactive cells in rat, human, and other mammalian pituitaries, their ontogeny and the effect of endocrine manipulations in the rat. | | | Age-related changes in the numbers of mammotrophs, somatotrophs and mammosomatotrophs in the anterior pituitary gland of female rats: a flow cytometric study. | | | Decreased stimulation of adenylate cyclase by growth hormone-releasing factor in the anterior pituitary of old rats. |
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| | Pituitary Tumors |
| | Pituitary adenomas are benign tumors (meaning that they are non-cancerous and do not travel to other parts of the body) that arise exclusively within the anterior pituitary. | | | Pituitary tissue is acquired through biopsy at the time of surgical removal. | | | Surgical therapy for these tumors usually will not improve survival because the patient has cancer elsewhere in his or her body. |
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http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/956627185.html
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| | PITUITARY DISEASE |
| | Large pituitary adenomas eventually erode the sella, clinoid processes, diaphragma sellae, optic nerves and chiasm, and even the cavernous sinuses, nasal sinuses, or brain. | | | * Note that the treatment of choice for all other kinds of anterior pituitary adenomas is probably still surgery. | | | Back in the Bad Old Days, if you got an ACTH-producing pituitary adenoma, you would probably be really sick for a while and then die of it. |
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http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/pituitar.htm
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 2, Ch. 7, Pituitary Disorders |
| | Patients with macroadenomas generally should be treated with bromocriptine or surgically only after thorough testing of pituitary function and consultation with an endocrinologist, neurosurgeon, and radiotherapist. | | | Men with prolactin-secreting pituitary tumors typically complain of headaches or visual difficulties. | | | Both surgical treatment and irradiation may be followed by the loss of other pituitary hormone functions. |
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http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section2/chapter7/7b.htm
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| | Anterior Pituitary |
| | For many years, it's increase was thought to be responsible for many of the skin changes of pregnancy, particularly skin darkening (darkening of the areola, chloasma, and linea nigra). | | | These changes are almost entirely due to changes in the anterior lobe. | | | Prolactin is produced in spurts, in response to the infant's sucking. |
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http://www.rnceus.com/hormone/antpit.html
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| | Example: Pars Distalis |
| | This is a portal system: one in which the drainage from a capillary bed is immediately put into a second capillary bed. | | | Put another way, the brain is an endocrine organ in its own right. | | | The venous drainage from these capillaries, however, is routed through the different parts of the adenohypophysis, including most especially the the pars distalis. |
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http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/Curriculum/VM8054/Labs/Lab24/EXAMPLES/EXPARDIS.HTM
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| | SIU SOM Histology ERG |
| | The anatomical and vascular relationships of the pituitary to the hypothalamus are quite significant. | | | The pituitary is attached by its stalk to the median eminence at the base of the hypothalamus, between the optic chiasm and the mammillary bodies. | | | The anterior pituitary is of ectodermal origin (from Rathke's pouch). |
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http://www.siumed.edu/~dking2/erg/pituit.htm
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| | OHSU Pituitary Unit - Hormone Replacement Therapy and Pituitary Hormone Deficiency |
| | Cortisol is necessary for maintaining vascular tone (blood pressure), and effects bone density, growth, kidney function, the immune system, and the brain (behavior and cognition). | | | Introduction About The Pituitary Diseases Of The Pituitary | | | These patients should also discuss with their endocrinologist a plan to temporarily increase steroid dose in the context of illness, trauma or planned surgery. |
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| | anterior pituitary - definition of anterior pituitary by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | anterior pituitary - the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | | | hypophysis, pituitary, pituitary body, pituitary gland - the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | Anterior pituitary insufficiency, familial |
| | Two of these patients presented with the same phenotype: GH, PRL, TSH and gonadotropin deficiencies associated with a rigid cervical spine leading to limited head rotation. | | | MPHD is characterized by the concomitant or sequential onset of several anterior pituitary hormone deficiencies. | | | Septo-optic dysplasia is usually a sporadic defect but familial occurrences have been described in association with hypopituitarism of variable degree in patients with mutations in the homeobox gene HESX1. |
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| | Anterior Pituitary |
| | Occasionally burns out of its own accord, or else is treated with DXRT or surgery. | | | Secretion of CRF, by cells in the median eminence of the hypothalamus, into the pituitary portal system, causes ACTH release in response to stress and diurnal rhythmn. | | | Classically a person with cool, pale, dry skin, mental dullness, hypogonadism, amennorrhoea, postural hypotension, etc. Sheeehan's syndrome is absent lactation and panhypopituitarism following a PPH. |
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| | e-Hormone.com: Hormones, endocrine system, glands, actions |
| | Emotion, anxiety and pain can inhibit oxytocin release. | | | Specialized neurons in the hypothalamus, controlled by feedback and other communication methods release factors that cause the release of hormones from the anterior pituitary. | | | Its release from the pituitary is governed by a negative feedback mechanism involving these steroids. |
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| | Anterior pituitary definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Anterior pituitary definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | The results of overfunction of the anterior pituitary include overgrowth (gigantism) in children and a condition called acromegaly in adults. | | | Hormones secreted by the anterior pituitary influence growth, sexual development, skin pigmentation, thyroid function, and adrenocortical function. |
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| | Overview of Hypothalamic and Pituitary Hormones |
| | A prominent mechanism for control of the releasing and inhibiting hormones is negative feedback, as described in general in a previous section. | | | Keep in mind that summaries are just that, and ongoing research continues to delineate additional, sometimes very important effects. | | | Such praise is justified in the sense that the anterior and posterior pituitary secrete a battery of hormones that collectively influence all cells and affect virtually all physiologic processes. |
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http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/hypopit/overview.html
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| | Hypothalamus and Pituitary |
| | But, since the hypothalamus is so intimately associated with the pituitary, it should make sense to you that the hypothalamus can particularly affect the pituitary gland. | | | This hormone affects ACTH release from the anterior pituitary | | | Basically, what I've told you is that there is a direct line of communication between the hypothalamus and the anterior pituitary, based on that description of blood flow. |
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http://distance.stcc.edu/AandP/AP/AP2pages/Units14to17/endocrine/hypothal.htm
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| | Anterior Pituitary Disorders - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital |
| | Anterior Pituitary Disorders - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital | | | It releases a variety of hormones that affect growth, physical and sexual development, and other endocrine glands. | | | Listed in the directory below you will find additional information regarding anterior pituitary disorders, for which we have provided a brief overview. |
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| | ARS Publication request: The Anterior Pituitary Gland: Lessons from Livestock |
| | Multiple hypothalamic hypophysiotropic peptides (which may also be produced peripherally, e.g. | | | Technical Abstract: There has been extensive research of the anterior pituitary gland of livestock and poultry due to the economic (agricultural) importance of physiological processes controlled by it including reproduction, growth,lactation and stress. | | | Moreover, farm animals can be biomedical models or useful in evolutionary/ecological research. |
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| | Anterior pituitary peptides |
| | Buy cancer peptides porcine depends entirely on anterior pituitary peptides and opioid peptides, muramyl peptides and |
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| | pituitary |
| | Keep this in mind when taking the lab exam because it provides a valuable clue. | | | You may be asked with other endocrine tissues to identify a hormone that is secreted by the gland in question. | | | This hormone stimulates breast development and milk production. |
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| | Transplantation of the pituitary gland to another site in the body (e.g. | | | If the pituitary gland is transplanted to a site in the body which has a good blood supply but is away from the hypothalamus, which of these hormones would increase its rate of secretion ? | | | Which of the following hormones would be expected to be at its highest plasma concentration in the blood of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal portal system? |
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| | ANTERIOR PITUITARY HORMONES |
| | There are 6 major hormones produced by the anterior pituitary, which can be grouped according to structure. | | | This is a polypeptide derived from the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) precursor molecule, which also gives rise to products such as melanocyte stimulating hormone, lipotrophic hormone and | | | Luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone and thyroid stimulating hormone |
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| | >Hypothalamus and Anterior Pituitary |
| | This figure illustrates the structure and roles of the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary. | | | The hypothalamus neurosecretory cells produce two types of hormones, releasing hormones and inhibiting hormones, which control the secretory function of the anterior pituitary. | | | Apparently, there is a releasing hormone for every type of hormone secreted by the pituitary. |
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| | zThe posterior pituitary is an extension of the hypothalamus&; | | | yis about 20% of the weight of the entire pituitary
| | | zTwo major neural tracts project to the posterior pituitary
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| | Anterior Pituitary |
| | These factors control the secretion of all anterior pituitary hormones | | | Releasing and inhibiting hormones secreted by hypothalmus circulate directly to anterior pituitary |
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| | NDI Terminology - anterior pituitary |
| | A preparation of the dried, partially defatted, powdered anterior lobe of the pituitary gland of hogs, sheep, or cattle. | | | The anterior lobe of the pituitary gland; the adenohypophysis or pars distalis. |
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