ACTH is the hormone your pituitary gland sends to your adrenal glands to tell them to produce more cortisol. It can be caused by long-term use of certain steroids or damage to the pituitary gland.

Hypopituitarism is a health condition characterized by the reduced production of hormones from the pituitary gland. The pathophysiology of hypopituitarism usually involves damage to the pituitary ...

Anterior Pituitary Transcriptome Suggests Differences in ACTH Release in Tame and Aggressive Foxes. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics , 2018; g3.300508.2017 DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.300508 Cite This Page : ...

ThyrotropinThyrotropin is a glycoprotein secreted by specific basophils of the anterior pituitary gland.128 Although it is found in all vertebrates studied, there is evidence of some species differ ...

THE elucidation of the major functions of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland during the past four decades is a monument of scientific achievement. In a microcosmic sense its history parallels ...

IT is now generally admitted that the functions of the pituitary gland (or hypophysis) are mediated by the secretion of a number of hormones from its different parts; although no active principle ...