A new study by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has provided a better understanding of the role of one hormone – growth hormone (GH) – in anxiety, for the first time ...

People who have syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) produce excessive amounts of antidiuretic hormones. It leads to the body developing an imbalance of sodium and water.

Mean growth-hormone (HGH) concentrations during six-hour oral glucose tolerance tests were significantly higher in patients with endometrial carcinoma at one, two and three hours than in appropriately ...

The posterior pituitary is the smaller of two lobes that make up your pituitary gland. It secretes vasopressin and oxytocin into your bloodstream — hormones that play a role in water balance, ...

Placental growth hormone (PGH) is synthesized in and secreted from the human placental syncytiotrophoblast (1) into the maternal circulation in a nonpulsatile manner, detectable in the maternal ...

Researchers have developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion. In response to incoming food, these hormones are secreted by rare hormone producing cells in the gut and ...

A multi-institutional group of researchers led by the Hubrecht Institute and Roche's Institute of Human Biology has developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion. In ...

Researchers led by Prof. YANG Fan from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have proposed a new approach to control ...

Many people wonder how the lack of sleep affects their basic metabolism so profoundly. Sleep has been shown to interact with the endocrine system over a wide range of hormones, in both directions.

Sleep is important for plenty of reasons. What you might not have known is that sleep impacts your hormones, and hormone levels impact your sleep. Sleep affects many hormones in the body, including ...