We examined 8 normal subjects and 16 patients with non-functioning pituitary tumors with a combined anterior pituitary test to evaluate the clinical usefulness of the test. Diagnoses included 9 of chromophobe adenoma, 3 of craniopharyngioma, 2 of Rathke's cleft cyst, and 1 each of intrasellar cyst and tuberculum sella meningioma. All subjects received hypothalamic releasing hormones: 1 microgra...

HIGHLIGHTS The proprioceptive system provides a sense of body awareness and detects controls force pressure. Menstruation is the regular, orderly shedding uterine wall, in response to interactions hormones produced by hypothalamus, pituitary, ovaries. Estrogen steroid hormone involved female reproductive organs, as well numerous other biological systems including neuroendocrine, vascular, skele...

Pituitary tumors are common monoclonal neoplasms which cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Several molecular events underlying pituitary tumorigenesis have been elucidated in recent years, but no tumor marker has clearly emerged which assists clinical and therapeutic decisions. Activating mutations and loss of inactivating mutations, together with hypothalamic hormones, circulating horm...

during the islamic lunar month of ramadan millions of muslims abstain from drinking and eating from dawn to sunset. the objective of this study was to investigate the effect of intermittent islamic fasting on reproductive function, hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis and the peripheral metabolism of thyroid hormones in men. we measured serum levels of fsh, lh, testosterone, prolactin, tsh, t4, ...

Pituitary tumors are benign that occur in the pituitary gland with a presentation of 10% all intracranial tumors. If size tumor is > 1 cm, called macroadenoma, large will have mass effect so there an emphasis on area and its surroundings. This manifest hyposecretion hormones produced pituitary. We report case 57-year-old male complaints decreased vision since 3.5 months. The patient had prev...

Metastatic cancer may be treated either by excision of endocrine glands (surgical deprivation) or administration of hormones (addition therapy). This article deals only with deprivation. Addition will only be considered as it directly affects deprivation and not as a method of therapy in its own right. The purpose of surgical deprivation is to terminate the production of the specific hormones e...