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  • Thumbnail for Posterior pituitary
    The posterior pituitary (or neurohypophysis) is the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland which is part of the endocrine system. The posterior pituitary...
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    synthesizes and secretes melanocyte-stimulating hormone. The posterior pituitary (or neurohypophysis) is a lobe of the gland that is functionally connected...
    25 KB (2,767 words) - 22:06, 4 August 2024
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    melanocyte stimulating hormone. It is linked with the formation of the black pigment in our skin called melanin. The neurohypophysis stores and releases...
    18 KB (2,098 words) - 15:00, 3 August 2024
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    molecules. Some of these sites are the sites of neurosecretion - the neurohypophysis and the median eminence. However, others are sites at which the brain...
    50 KB (4,969 words) - 00:27, 8 August 2024
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    that together with the posterior lobe (posterior pituitary, or the neurohypophysis) makes up the pituitary gland (hypophysis) which, in humans, is located...
    23 KB (2,518 words) - 14:34, 16 May 2024
  • (also called anti-diuretic hormone), the two neurohypophysial hormones of the posterior pituitary gland (the neurohypophysis), are secreted from the nerve...
    25 KB (2,747 words) - 23:24, 28 July 2024
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    Oxytocin (redirect from Cuddle hormone)
    Oxytocin is a peptide hormone and neuropeptide normally produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary. Present in animals since...
    104 KB (11,649 words) - 03:28, 28 July 2024
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    tract, is the connection between the hypothalamus and the neurohypophysis. The floor of the third ventricle is prolonged downward as a funnel-shaped...
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    the blood, the neurohypophysis (another name for the posterior pituitary). Most of the circulating oxytocin and vasopressin hormones are synthesized...
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    bodies produce the peptide hormone vasopressin, which is also known as anti-diuretic hormone (ADH), and the peptide hormone oxytocin. Both of these peptides...
    13 KB (1,616 words) - 08:13, 31 July 2024
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    Secretin (category Peptide hormones)
    nuclei of the hypothalamus and along the neurohypophysial tract to neurohypophysis. During increased osmolality, it is released from the posterior pituitary...
    31 KB (3,526 words) - 20:35, 14 August 2024
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    adenohypophyseal hormones such as growth hormone; prolactin; thyrotropin; luteinizing hormone; follicle-stimulating hormone; and adrenocorticotropic hormone.[citation...
    56 KB (5,822 words) - 00:58, 13 August 2024
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    between the hypothalamus and the pituitary. Oxytocin and anti-diuretic hormone are not secreted in the posterior lobe, merely stored. The pancreas is...
    28 KB (687 words) - 01:16, 12 November 2023
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    titled "Functional Interrelationships of the Hypothalamus and the Neurohypophysis" and was published in 1953. While studying for her PhD degree, Diamond...
    27 KB (2,838 words) - 16:44, 29 July 2024
  • respectively. Neurophysin and its hormone become a complex considered a single protein and stored in the neurohypophysis. Upon stimulation by the hypothalamus...
    2 KB (219 words) - 23:41, 6 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome
    common cause of congenital hypopituitarism, and causes a permanent growth hormone deficit. Some PSIS-affected individuals may also present with adrenal hypoplasia...
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    neurosecretory vesicles and transported axonally to the nerve endings in the neurohypophysis, where it is either stored or secreted into the bloodstream. The precursor...
    4 KB (587 words) - 04:43, 27 December 2023
  • and the posterior pituitary (also known as the adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis (or neural lobe), respectively). Each one functions as a separate endocrine...
    38 KB (4,289 words) - 08:58, 23 May 2024
  • that the oxytocin hormone is produced in the corpus luteum of the ovary in sheep and other ruminants, as well as in the neurohypophysis. This might form...
    8 KB (840 words) - 00:01, 29 December 2023
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    Chapter 373: Pituitary Tumor Syndromes Chapter 374: Disorders of the Neurohypophysis Chapter 375: Thyroid Gland Physiology and Testing Chapter 376: Hypothyroidism...
    41 KB (4,515 words) - 06:30, 24 July 2024
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