A bizarre social media theory claims that an ancient race of giants used to walk the Earth - and science says they might be ...

He was a warrior so large that his name is now a byword for immense size. But just how big was Goliath the biblical giant in ...

A newly discovered line of communication between body muscle and the pituitary gland may play an unexpected role in female fertility, according to a new study. McGill University researchers found ...

The surface of Japanese rice fish's body has pigment cells that receive a hormone from cells in the pituitary gland and synthesize melanin. Cells in the gland contain the so-called Opn5m receptor ...

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Pituitary diseases are disorders affecting the pituitary gland that ultimately affect the secretion of pituitary hormones. The most frequent conditions are acromegaly (growth hormone excess ...

The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis has an important role in maintaining the physiological ... and cholesterol transport from liver to the adrenal glands for production of GC and other ...

cam.ac.uk Pituitary dysfunction is a recognised, but potentially underdiagnosed complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Post-traumatic hypopituitarism (PTHP) can have major consequences for ...

Cushing's syndrome happens when you have too many corticosteroids in your body. When the disorder often starts with the pituitary gland, the condition is called Cushing's syndrome. The gland makes too ...

The Science Behind Cushing’s Cushing’s syndrome is most commonly caused by a benign tumor on the pituitary gland — a small, pea-shaped structure located at the base of the brain. This form of the ...

Robert Wadlow's cause of height was ascribed to pituitary gigantism. This rare condition results from hyperplasia of the pituitary gland. An oversecretion of the human growth hormone characterises it, ...

When Oscar Wilde said moderation is fatal, and nothing succeeds like excess, he was not thinking of Robert's situation. Robert Wadlow's cause of death resulted from the same thing that made him ...