How symptoms present could depend on which type of thyroid disorder you have. Hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid gland, occurs when the body produces too little thyroid hormone. There are ...

They also inhibit the actual release of thyroid hormone by your thyroid gland and disrupt the peripheral conversion of the thyroid storage hormone T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3. In very large ...

Many non-mammalian vertebrates like fish, however, are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland, which is part of the brain. An Osaka Metropolitan University research group has ...

Researchers have elucidated how a single photoreceptor in the pineal gland of zebrafish detects color. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red ...

Zebrafish are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland, which is part of the brain. How they do so is now being elucidated. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes ...

The hypocretins (orexins), Hcrt1 and Hcrt2, are expressed only in a few thousand neurons in the dorsolateral hypothalamus. These secreted peptides are found in both rat and human brain ...