Review of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Pituitary Gland The adult pituitary gland weighs approximately 500-600 g and is typically 1.2-1.5 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm thick, occupying approximately ...

The anterior pituitary (also called the adenohypophysis) comprises the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland and is part of the endocrine system. Under the influence of the hypothalamus, the anterior ...

Hitherto only the posterior lobe of the pituitary was known to contain a blood-pressure principle generally called vasopressin. Its role in the circulation system is not defined, and it is not held to ...

IT is now generally admitted that the functions of the pituitary gland (or hypophysis) are mediated by the secretion of a number of hormones from its different parts; although no active principle has ...

THE elucidation of the major functions of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland during the past four decades is a monument of scientific achievement. In a microcosmic sense its history parallels ...

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