The hypothalamus and pituitary glands are essential components of the endocrine system, playing an indispensable role in ...

The endocrine system is connected to the nervous system through the pituitary gland via the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is an extremely complicated region of the brain. It releases hormones which ...

The pituitary gland is an endocrine gland located downstream of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, which is composed of an anterior, an intermediate and a posterior lobe. It secretes ...

A paracrine hormone of skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine signal for the synthesis of a sex hormone. Scientists at McGill University have observed in mice how myostatin, which inhibits the ...

Its application to endocrine disorders has been limited, and pituitary transplantation remains without significant clinical applications. The case described here is an early clinical precursor of ...

which severs the connections between the cell bodies of AVP-secreting neurons in the hypothalamus and their nerve terminals in the posterior pituitary gland, which prevents AVP secretion.

The Reproductive Endocrinology Laboratory is interested in understanding how hormones from the brain and pituitary control puberty ... the developmental regulation of the endocrine hypothalamus.