The pituitary gland is a small, pea-sized endocrine gland located at the base of the brain. The hormones it secretes are involved in almost all major body functions, such as growth, reproduction ...

When cortisol levels are low, the hypothalamus releases the corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH), which triggers the anterior pituitary gland to release the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH).

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

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Steven Carpenter, clinical associate professor of radiology. "The pituitary gland functions as the master control switch that regulates secretion of many of the hormones that are critical for good ...

(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 ...