Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

characterized by concomitant hypersecretion of other anterior pituitary hormones, mainly growth hormone or prolactin. Finally, the measurement of several parameters of peripheral thyroid hormone ...

Here, we use a mathematical model of the HPA axis to demonstrate that the pituitary and adrenal glands compensate for drug effects by adjusting their functional mass, a feedback mechanism absent in ...

Puberty blockers tell your brain to stop releasing puberty hormones. In AFAB folks ... steady state rather than in a pulsing fashion, the pituitary gland never gets the signal to make LH or ...

Scientists at McGill University have observed in mice how myostatin, which inhibits the development of muscle mass to control its growth, also stimulated the production of the pituitary ...

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can ... They found that the activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which plays a central role in coping with stress ...

Hormone replacement therapy ... from ARPA-H in late 2024 aims to develop a drug that would extend ovarian function throughout a woman’s lifespan. Similar pharmaceutical strategies are already ...

This study aimed to develop a non-surgical method to neutralize reproduction in female dogs. Female Beagle puppies, aged 6 days, were treated with pellets designed to release estradiol benzoate (EB; 1 ...