One of the first brain cells shown to make insulin is the neurogliaform cell. These live in a brain area important for ...

Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a rare condition resulting from inadequate secretion of growth hormone by the anterior ...

AACE released clinical guidelines on the diagnosis, management, and surveillance of tumors related to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1.

Highlights from the 2025 Global Equine Endocrinology Symposium included never-before-presented study results on insulin ...

Given the thyroid gland’s profound influence on every cell in the body, it’s no surprise it gets blamed for a litany of health issues. Not everyone shares the same threshold of concern when it comes ...

Parathyroid problems masquerade as common problems of many other organs, misleading many medical specialists. The parathyroid ...

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During musth—a period of heightened testosterone in male elephants—temporal gland secretions signal reproductive readiness to females and competitive status to other males. Female elephants similarly ...

1962; Atkinson et al., 1967). In addition, plants may regulate shoot ion concentration and reduce salt concentration in leaf tissue by other means such as salt secretion through leaf glands, ...

Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the major cause of evaporative dry eye disease (EDED) and dysfunction is widely thought to mechanistically involve ductal hyperkeratinization, plugging and ...

The pituitary gland is an endocrine gland located downstream of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, which is composed of an anterior, an intermediate and a posterior lobe. It secretes ...

lvpei.org Purpose To investigate the secretory status of the main lacrimal gland in healthy and dry eye disease (DED) via fluorescein-assisted direct assessment of tear secretion from the palpebral ...