Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA The hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis plays ...

A paracrine hormone of skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine signal for the synthesis of a sex hormone. Scientists at McGill ...

Area under the curve of TSH after levothyroxine withdrawal versus administration of recombinant human TSH (rhTSH): possible implications for tumor growth ...

High maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the health of the children, according ...

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Follow up and optimisation of pituitary hormone replacement is also relatively straightforward, but management of visual impairment, reduced fertility, coarsened facial features, arthritis, obesity, ...

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 ...

In assessing the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis, the thyroid function test (TFT) showed low levels of free thyroxine at 7 pmol/L (normal range: 12–22), a thyroid-stimulating hormone level of 3.13 ...

Early prenatal but not postnatal glucocorticoid exposure is associated with enhanced HPA axis activity into adulthood in a ...