As October is Pituitary Awareness Month, let's highlight one of the most important – yet least well-known – organs in the human body.

An unexpected observation has led researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science to challenge a 200-year-old doctrine regarding the embryonic origins of the pituitary gland. Situated at the base of ...

In a new study published in Cell Reports, Finnish researchers show that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in the pituitary gland, help regulate hormonal balance. It is possible that in ...

A recent Nature Medicine study showed that recipients of cadaver-derived pituitary growth hormone (c-hGH) developed biomarker changes in the realm of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This study indicates the ...

When the pituitary gland fails, people take hormone pills for the rest of their lives. Those pills can’t rise and fall with ...

Five of eight British children who received human growth hormone from the pituitary glands of deceased donors went on to develop early-onset Alzheimer's disease many decades later, researchers report.

The hypothalamus–pituitary–target gland axis has been recognized as a fundamental functional framework of the mammalian endocrine system. The anterior pituitary gland synthesizes and secretes multiple ...

A detailed mapping study in adult male mice shows that huntingtin-associated protein 1 is distributed in a highly ...

A new review argues that chronic kidney disease may dysregulate pituitary hormones through uremic toxins, inflammation, disrupted FGF23-Klotho signaling, microRNAs, and gut-brain pathways.

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a hormone that’s essential to our development. Most people produce enough HGH throughout their lifetime. But for those with a deficiency in growth hormone (or a few other ...