anterior pituitary hormone

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adrenocortical hormone
adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) corticotropin.
androgenic hormone androgen.
antidiuretic hormone (ADH) vasopressin.
corpus luteum hormone progesterone.
cortical hormone corticosteroid.

estrogenic hormone estrogen.
gonadotropic hormone gonadotropin.
growth hormone release–inhibiting hormone somatostatin.
interstitial cell–stimulating hormone luteinizing hormone.
lactation hormone (lactogenic hormone) prolactin.
progestational hormone
2. progestational agent.
sex h's see sex hormones.
somatotrophic hormone (somatotropic hormone) growth hormone.
somatotropin release–inhibiting hormone somatostatin.
thyroid h's see thyroid hormones.
thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) thyrotropin.

anterior pituitary hormone

Any of several hormones secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary, including corticotropin, follicle-stimulating hormone, gonadotropin, growth hormone, luteinizing hormone, melanocyte-stimulating hormone, prolactin, and thyrotropin.
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Anterior pituitary hormones are growth hormone (GH), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and prolactin (PRL).
As with sparsely granulated GH adenomas, obtaining a MIB-1 level (molecular immunology Borstel unit 1, an improved Kiel antibody number 67 monoclonal antibody that recognizes a nuclear protein present in G1, S, G2, and M phases of the cell cycle and stains epitopes in paraffin sections) cannot serve as a substitute for specific anterior pituitary hormone immunostaining, because both sparsely granulated GH and clinically silent ACTH adenomas often have MIB-1 rates below the suggested level of 3% for a typical pituitary adenoma (Figure 5, f).
It has been shown by various cross-sectional and prospective studies that there is a significant prevalence of undiagnosed anterior pituitary hormone abnormalities in survivors of TBI.
Standard immunohistochemical reactions were carried out on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue to evaluate the presence of anterior pituitary hormones (GH, PRL, LH, FSH, TSH, and ACTH), Ki-67 (anti-human antigen Ki67, clone MIB-1, DAKO, cod.
Alison Kilgour's eight-year old son Lliam has panhypopituitarism - a condition of inadequate or absent production of the anterior pituitary hormones.
Therefore, exploration of the effects of iron overload on Kisspeptin and anterior pituitary hormones like GH, TSH and Thyroid hormones T3, T4 were evaluated.
(1) They may secrete anterior pituitary hormones, in which case they are heralded by endocrine symptoms, or be functionally silent, when they often present with signs and symptoms associated with compression of local structures.
Releasing factors, synthesised in the hypothalamus, pass to the adenohypophysis through these vessels to control the release of anterior pituitary hormones. The hypothalamus has autonomic, neuroendocrine and limbic functions and is involved in the coordination of homeostatic mechanisms.
Most patients require life-long replacement with anterior pituitary hormones, since surgery has no significant effect on improving the preexisting endocrine defects(12,13).

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