Pineal Body and Metabolism

Haemangiopericytoma of the pineal body.

Myocardial and Body Metabolism

Cellular energy substrates and metabolites, electrolytes, oxygenation, and acid-base balance, in arterial and coronary sinus blood of seven adult patients who died after valvular replacements, were studied and compared with these measurements from five patients having aortic replacement who survived. Six of the patients were in New York Heart Association class IV. All but one died within 24 hr ...

Pineal gland metabolism in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

The scoliosis observed in chickens after pinealectomy resembles that seen in humans with an adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, suggesting that melatonin deficiency may be responsible. However, to date there have been no studies of pineal gland glucose metabolism in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis that might support this hypothesis. We examined the excretion of urinary 6-sulfatoxyl-m...

Pineal gland metabolism in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

[email protected] INTRODUCTION: The observation that an experimental pinealectomy in newborn chickens leads to a spinal deformity similar to idiopathic scoliosis in humans initiated a new neuroendocrine hypothesis for the cause of idiopathic scoliosis. A deficiency of melatonin, which is the principal product of the pineal gland, was believed to be responsible for this deformity, because b...

Studies on the function of the pineal body.

The pineal body was for a long time looked upon as a functionless remnant and from a phylogenetical point of view was accepted as a rudiment of the third eye, which is, at the present time, only found in hatteria punctata. As far as is known an epiphysis is present in all ver tebrates with the exception of mixinoids and crocodilia. In man the pineal body is pear shaped, lies just beneath the sp...