"Pituitary Hormones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Hormones secreted by the PITUITARY GLAND including those from the anterior lobe (adenohypophysis), the posterior lobe (neurohypophysis), and the ill-defined intermediate lobe. Structurally, they include small peptides, proteins, and glycoproteins. They are under the regulation of neural signals (NEUROTRANSMITTERS) or neuroendocrine signals (HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES) from the hypothalamus as well as feedback from their targets such as ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANDROGENS; ESTROGENS.
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D010907
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D06.472.699.631 D12.644.548.691
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pituitary Hormones" by people in Profiles.
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Pre- and postoperative need for pituitary hormone replacement in non-adenomatous sellar and parasellar lesions: importance of the sellar encroachment score. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2020 10; 162(10):2371-2379.