The pea-sized pituitary gland is composed of both anterior and posterior lobes; in adults, the vertical diameter is approximately 8mm, with the horizontal circumference found to be 12 millimeters ...

(3) After all of the AVP stored in the posterior pituitary gland has been released, a third phase of diabetes insipidus develops if >80-90% of the AVP-secreting neuronal cell bodies in the ...

A review of the Johns Hopkins Hospital surgical records from 1896–1912 on a patient with hypopituitarism secondary to a suprasellar mass, in whom the first documented pituitary gland ...

Oxytocin Oxytocin Oxytocin is a posterior pituitary ... and prolactin by the anterior pituitary. Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (also called Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)) GnRH GnRH ...