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Doctors at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Hospital, and Cambridge University Hospital, have led research using a new type of CT scan to light up tiny nodules in a hormone gland and cure high blood pressure by their removal. The nodules are discovered in one-in-twenty people with high blood pressure. Published in Nature …
Mechanisms behind the anti-obesity effects of melatonin hormones released by the pineal gland in the brain overnight have been revealed in a new study, as published in the Journal of Pineal Research. Researchers have demonstrated melatonin’s anti-obesity effects and use in obesity control. Specific molecular mechanism that is triggered by chronic administration of the …
The pituitary gland which is a pea sized gland in the middle of the head, behind the nose, which is nestled in a shallow bony socket at the top of the sphenoid bone that pituitary tumor growths arise from, which contribute to 10-15% of all brain tumors. Adenoma gland cell tumors are among the …