Anterior pituitary

Menopause happens when the ovaries no longer release an egg every month and menstruation stops. As a woman ages, her ovaries don't respond to FSH or LH as strongly as they used to. FSH is synthesized and secreted by the gonadotropic cells of the anterior pituitary gland, and regulates…

are very strange and rare to see. One of those rare diseases is called Hyperpituitarism. Hyperpituitarism is also known as Gigantism or Acromegaly. It is a rare disease where the pituitary gland is overactive. The glands become overactive when Benign tumors grow on the anterior pituitary. When this happens the pituitary glands secretes an excessive amount of growth hormones (GH). The excessive amount of hormones causes excessive growth of the long bones in the body, and can cause the organs to…

the gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH agonist) utilized as the pamoates or acetate salts. GnRH is Triptorelin (GnRH) initiates persistent stimulation of the pituitary glands and therefore leads to a decline in the levels of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and gonatropins luteinizing hormone (LH) secreted by the pituitary gland. It achieves this function by over stimulating the body’s production of these hormones hence leading to a temporary shutdown of their production. Similar to…

that the underlying problem is localized to the adrenal gland itself, rather than a problem of a hormone that acts on the adrenal gland or elsewhere in the body. The hypothalamus releases corticotropin releasing hormone which stimulates the anterior pituitary gland to produce adrenocorticotropic hormone ( ACTH). ACTH travel to the adrenal gland especially the adrenal cortex where it stimulate the adrenal cortex to produce and secrete hormones.The main cause of primary insufficiency and…

Neuroscience and Depression Jessica Hess Southern Connecticut State University Depression is an affective mood disorder, which is a psychiatric disorder that involves a change of mood and emotion (Pinel, J, 2014). There are several different categories of depression. Major depression is a very familiar term and is the most well known form of depression. This is characterized by symptoms such as loss of interest and an inability to enjoy life and the cause remains unidentified. Another…

symptoms experienced and the outcomes of blood tests; the blood tests issued measure the amount of TSH and the thyroid hormone, thyroxine. High levels of TSH combined with low levels of thyroxine reveal an underactive thyroid. TSH is made by the pituitary gland in order to trigger the thyroid gland to produce more hormones. After you’ve been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you will routinely take blood tests to determine the appropriate quantity of medication. Treatment is usually effective,…

Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) is still being released from the hypothalamus to stimulate the release of TSH from the anterior pituitary gland (2). However, due to low levels of T4 and T3 being secreted by the thyroid gland, the negative feedback causes an increase in the production of TSH without an increase in T4 and T3 levels (2). This is reason to conclude that the patient…

Pituitary Dwarfism is when the body does not grow due to hormonal problems. The outcome of this would be a little person due to the entire structure of the body being decreased. The word dwarfism is when a person’s growth is very slow. There are many different types of dwarfism but in this situation pituitary dwarfism is dealing with the pituitary gland of the body. The pituitary gland controls certain hormones in the human body. Pituitary glands are split into two sides;…

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is naturally synthesized by the anterior pituitary gland and its release is stimulated by the corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) which stimulates the release of corticosteroids (e.g. cortisol) from the adrenal glands. ACTH plays a major role as response to any biological stress in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis…

occurs over long distances in the body and the signal is sent through the blood. Firstly, the cell inside the pituitary gland sends hormones into the blood stream over a long distance and once it gets reaches to a cell with the right receptor, the hormones will attach themselves to the receptor of that cell and go inside the cell and trigger a response. For example, the anterior pituitary lobe will release adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) to stimulate cortisol production in the adrenal glands…