The hormone-expressing cells of the pituitary anterior lobe are characterized by a series of transcription factors during development. The earliest pituitary progenitor cells express PITX2, ...

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 ...

Pituitary tissue grown from human stem cells releases hormones in rats. Cell Press. Journal Stem Cell Reports DOI 10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.05.005 ...

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.

In a new study published in Cell Reports, Finnish researchers show that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in the pituitary gland, help regulate hormonal balance. It is possible that ...

More information: Hidetaka Suga, Generation and purification of ACTH-secreting hPSC-derived pituitary cells for effective transplantation, Stem Cell Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2023.05.002 .

Researchers have successfully converted human pluripotent stem cells into purified pituitary cells that aggregated into hormone-secreting organoids. As reported June 8 in the journal Stem Cell ...

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 ...

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.

Adult Mouse Hypothalamus & Pituitary Cell Lines. Product News . Published: March 20, 2015 Download Article Listen with Speechify ...