The anterior lobe of the pituitary gland contains several types of cells that produce different hormones responsible for regulating other glands throughout the body. The posterior lobe of the ...

Hormones are chemical messengers secreted directly into the blood, which carries them to organs and tissues to exert their functions. The pituitary gland is often subdivided into the posterior and ...

These hormones control processes such as growth, metabolism, reproduction, and stress response. However, when a tumor ...

(3) After all of the AVP stored in the posterior pituitary gland has been released, a third phase of diabetes insipidus develops if >80-90% of the AVP-secreting neuronal cell bodies in the ...