Our bodies are regulated by hormones which are chemicals that allow communication between different cells and parts of the body. Endocrine glands release hormones into the bloodstream. Hormones ...

Medically reviewed by Kelly Wood, MD The endocrine system is made of glands that produce hormones (chemical messengers), ...

The endocrine system secretes numerous hormones ... which carries them to organs and tissues to exert their functions. The pituitary gland is often subdivided into the posterior and anterior ...

Researchers from Cambridge and London have completed a study that is a world first of its kind and gives patients an ...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1 (MEN-1), is a genetic disorder that affects the body's hormone-producing glands. MEN-1 can lead to tumors in the parathyroid, pancreas, and pituitary glands. These ...

This is an important distinction from patients with FIPA, where no other endocrine glands form tumours. in MEN1 the overactive glands most often include the parathyroid glands, the pancreas and the ...

Endocrine cancers are a ... hormone-producing glands of the endocrine system. These include the thyroid, adrenal, pancreas, parathyroid and pituitary glands. The genomic landscape of hereditary ...

The condition is attributable to the ectopic expression of pituitary-specific positive transcription factor 1 (PIT1) in tumour tissues, which leads to autoimmunity against PIT1-positive anterior ...

At the Fourth International Conference on Sarcoidosis held in Paris (September 12–15, 1966) a session was devoted to endocrine changes in sarcoidosis. The published proceedings of this ...