Two sisters who died at the age of 2.5 years and 5 weeks are described. Both showed signs of panhypopituitarism. At necropsy, no hypophysis could be found in the first child and a rudimentary and partly ectopic hypophysis was found in the other. Both children had a flat, poorly developed sella turcica, and the sellar anomaly could be seen in skull x-rays. These patients represent a hereditary s...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic disease which is characterized by recurrent oral apthous ulcerations, recurrent genital ulcerations, skin eruptions, ocular involvements and other various systemic manifestations as well as systemic vasculitis. Endocrine involvement in BD regarding various systems can be seen. Hypophysis is one of the best and dense vascularized organs of the body, thus it is ...

Experimenters in the field of obesity are aware of the controversy which still exists concerning the relative importance of lesions of the hypophysis and of the hypothalamus as causes of experimental obesity. Frohlich (1) and Crowe, Cushing and Homans (2) are among those who attributed to lesions of the hypophysis a dominant role. 14schner (3), Erdheim (4), Bailey and Bremer (5), Camus and Rous...

1. Metamorphosed salamanders of the species Ambystoma opacum and Ambystoma tigrinum were fed on a pure diet of the anterior lobe of the hypophysis of cattle; the controls were fed on an abundant diet of earthworms. 2. The rate of growth of the animals fed on the anterior lobe of the hypophysis was greatly increased over the rate of growth of normal animals. 3. Growth of the animals fed on anter...

Early embryonic development generates precursors of all major cell types in Arabidopsis. Among these precursors, the hypophysis divides asymmetrically to form the progenitors of the quiescent center and columella stem cells. A great deal has been learnt about the mechanisms that control the asymmetric division of the hypophysis and embryogenesis at the transcriptional level; however, no evidenc...

3 Diseases ................................................................................. 17 3.1 Anterior Pituitary Deficiency................................................ 17 3.2 Central Diabetes Insipidus .................................................... 21 3.3 Precocious or Delayed Puberty............................................. 23 3.4 Other Endocrinopathies .......................

in this study, the morphology and organization of pituitary was investigated prior to hatching and at larval, juvenile and adult stages of the rutilus frisii  kutum. the eggs were kept in aquaria to study the stages before hatching. fingerling reaching 1 gr of weight were maintained in laboratory condition for 5 month. specimens larger than 1 gr up to adult stage were obtain either from fish cu...