When tiny amounts of hormones are cast into your bloodstream, they can evoke profound effects on organs far from the gland that secreted them. The endocrine glands that produce hormones -- the pituitary, pineal, thyroid, thymus, parathyroids, adrenals, pancreas and gonads -- are scattered throughout your body. Some hormones, such as estrogen, originate from several glands and tissues.
Psychrometer An instrument used to measure the water vapor content of the air. It consists of two thermometers (dry bulb and wet bulb). After whirling the instrument, the dew point and relative humidity can be obtained with the aid of tables.
As a cancer patient, you may never see a flow cytometer at Roswell Park, but, behind the scenes, this analytical tool plays a vital role in the diagnosis, classification and management of many cancers. I explain a bit more about how flow cytometry may be used in your cancer care in this post, and in the above video. Flow cytometry is an important tool in the diagnosis and management of certain cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma. The formal definition of flow cytometry, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is: