Agents that directly lower ACTH secretion by a pituitary adenoma represent an attractive option for the treatment of Cushing's disease, as these drugs directly target the pathogenesis of disease.

Ariceum Therapeutics (Ariceum), a private biotech company developing radiopharmaceutical products for the diagnosis ...

Previous studies have focused on the improvements in β-cell function, while the inhibition ... pancreatic endocrine clamps were performed using somatostatin infusions of somatostatin and/or ...

The gene neuropilin2 regulates inhibitory neuron migration and excitatory neuron connections, essential for balanced brain ...

Endocrinology specialist Dr Preethi Dissanayake discusses this uncommon presentation, in the latest in our series on ...

The methods established for evaluation of GI motor and biochemical function in vivo include luminal pressure recordings which determine the contractile pattern in a gut region by measuring the force ...

In the postpubertal animal, androgens and estrogens modulate hypothalamic somatostatin (SS) and GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) synthesis, respectively. These effects may be direct as SS neurons ...