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Introduction The pituitary represents the master endocrine gland, producing hormones that are key regulators of fundamental physiological processes including body growth, fertility, metabolism, immunity and stress. The gland produces these
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Introduction The human pituitary gland consists of an anterior lobe, which derives from the oral ectoderm, and a posterior lobe, which originates from the neuroectoderm. The anterior pituitary contains five types of endocrine cells, including
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Introduction The pituitary gland is a central endocrine gland that regulates the function of other organs and responds to the hypothalamic centers involved in processing external and internal stimuli. The pituitary gland of teleost fish is unique
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Introduction The pituitary gland is known as the master regulator of the endocrine system, a title that is justified by the numerous critical physiological functions that it regulates including growth, metabolism, stress responses and
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Introduction The pituitary gland, a ‘master gland’ of the body, acts as a central endocrine regulator of growth ( Brinkmeier et al. 2009 , Musumeci et al. 2015 , Cox et al. 2017 ), reproduction ( Brown & Roberson 2017 ), metabolism
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Introduction The pituitary gland is a key regulator of body homeostasis and responsible for signal exchanges between the hypothalamus and peripheral organs. Besides of the six different endocrine cell types (e.g. corticotrophs
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Introduction The involvement of estrogens in the control of pituitary function has been extensively studied (reviewed in Seilicovich 2010 ). Initially, estradiol was described to induce lactotroph proliferation through ERα; however, apoptotic
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Introduction Pituitary tumors are generally benign adenomas from a monoclonal/oligoclonal origin, which display heterogeneous clinical manifestations derived from oversecretion of a single hormone and/or size effects due to excess growth
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Introduction Prolactin (PRL) is a peptide hormone that is mainly synthesized and secreted from the anterior pituitary lactotrophs ( Freeman et al. 2000 , Cabrera-Reyes et al. 2017 ). With except the classical functions of PRL promoting
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pituitary gland. Our group has identified various collagen types (type I, III, IV, and VI collagens) in rat anterior pituitary gland ( Kaidzu et al. 2000 ). These collagens are distributed around endocrine cells and capillaries and support tissue