Chronic insufficiency of the cortical substance adrenal glands or hypocorticism until recently belonged to rare forms endocrine pathology. This included a few cases Addison’s disease tuberculous etiology, relatively small number patients after bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing’s disease, removal bilateral, sometimes unilateral, hormonally active tumors cortex and medulla glands. Bilateral is ...

There are two important systems in human beings, which control and maintain the homeostasis i.e. maintaining the internal environment in a balanced state. First and foremost important system is nervous system with the help of functioning cells called neurons. These neurons are characterized by their conductivity with the help of neurotransmitters i.e. chemical mediators. This nervous system is ...

Introduction. Macrophages are cells of the innate immune system that play many roles in body. known to be found endocrine glands, and there is now much evidence these interact closely with cells. Immune-endocrine interactions important for development glands their functioning during physiological states, also become key players pathophysiological states. Through gene expression profiling, diver...

Chu, X. 2015. Aspects of MEN1 Tumorigenesis in Endocrine Pancreas and Adrenal Glands. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1114. 47 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9273-1. Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 1 (MEN1) is an autosomal dominantly inherited disease, which is described as an association of tumors ma...

Endocrine cancers are a heterogeneous group of diseases that may arise from endocrine cells in any gland of the endocrine system. These malignancies may show an aggressive behavior and resistance to the common anticancer therapies. The etiopathogenesis of these tumors remains mostly unknown. The normal embryological development and differentiation of several endocrine glands are regulated by sp...

Even in the days of Galen and Vesalius, cerebral appendage was viewed as an organ whose task is to excrete some products. very dark for their purpose. It only since creation doctrine internal secretion by Brown-Squard that facts began accumulate determined actual place pituitary gland group endocrine glands indicated its enormous physiological pathological significance human body. One main intr...

In this series of articles on the diseases of the thyroid gland I have been asked to write an article dealing with the relationship of the thyroid gland to the rest of the Endocrine System, showing how it may affect other ductless glands, and in its turn be affected by them. It would seem that an article of this kind should be written by a physician or an experimental endocrinologist rather tha...