In a new study published in Cell Reports, Finnish researchers show that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in ...

Stem Cells Found For The First Time In The Pituitary Date: April 30, 2008 Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summary: Scientists have for the first time identified stem cells that allow the ...

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in Nature reports that scientists have been able to grow working pituitary glands from embryonic stem cells from mice. When these were transplanted into ...

Most pituitary tumors are adenomas that develop in the adenohypophysis (the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland), which is composed of six epithelial cell types that secrete peptide hormones.

Self-organized pituitary-like tissue from mouse ES cells Date: November 15, 2011 Source: RIKEN Summary: The possibility that functional, three-dimensional tissues and organs may be derived from ...

Recent research has challenged conventional concepts of pituitary lineage segregation by revealing that neural plate progenitors contribute to both anterior and posterior cell populations, thus ...

The pituitary gland is a structure located at the base of the brain, which dictates and manages the functions of the majority ...

Immunofluorescence image of pituitary cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells. The cells shown here were stained for ACTH (red) and DNA/nucleus (blue) 30 days after differentiation.

Researchers at Kobe University's Graduate School of Medicine have developed the world's first congenital pituitary hypoplasia (CPH) model using patient-derived iPS cells. The research group consisting ...

A research team, led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, have for the first time identified stem cells that allow the pituitary glands to grow even after birth in mice.