Understanding testosterone more deeplyInside the male body, there is a sophisticated mechanism that controls hormone levels ...

A detailed mapping study in adult male mice shows that huntingtin-associated protein 1 is distributed in a highly ...

Stem cell biologist Hugo Vankelecom (KU Leuven) and his colleagues have discovered that the pituitary gland in mice ages as the result of an age-related form of chronic inflammation. It may be ...

In a new study published in Cell Reports, Finnish researchers show that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in the pituitary gland, help regulate hormonal balance. It is possible that in ...

Scientists have grown working pituitary glands in the lab that could potentially transform the treatment of people with a range of debilitating hormone disorders. The team of Japanese researchers grew ...

As October is Pituitary Awareness Month, let's highlight one of the most important – yet least well-known – organs in the human body.

Last spring, a research team at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology created retina-like structures from cultured mouse embryonic stem cells. This week, the same group reports that it’s ...

The pituitary gland is the size of a pea, but it plays a major role in the endocrine system. It is often called the master gland because it controls several other hormone glands in the body. Almost ...

An unexpected observation has led researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science to challenge a 200-year-old doctrine regarding the embryonic origins of the pituitary gland. Situated at the base of ...

One of the enduring ichthyological mysteries is how migratory fish know when it is time to move from their winter to summer habitats. The ability to tell when the seasons are changing is crucial for a ...

Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a disorder of chronically elevated intracranial pressure requiring reliable noninvasive disease markers. We have previously demonstrated ...