Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists have demonstrated that neurons can transform from one type ...

Molecular imaging, including somatostatin receptor scintigraphy but more so PET with specific tracers, such as C 11-5HTP or Ga 68-DOTA octreotate, will improve staging and follow-up of therapy in ...

Growth hormone synthesis and its pulsatile secretion from the anterior pituitary is stimulated by growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH) and inhibited by somatostatin, both hypothalamic hormones 1.

The circadian system constrains an organism's palette of behaviors to portions of the solar day appropriate to its ecological niche. The central light-entrained clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus ...

The intestinal tract is composed of different cell lineages with distinct functions and gene expression profiles, providing uptake of nutrients and protection against insults to the gut lumen. Changes ...