The pituitary gland is an important component of the endocrine system, and together with the
hypothalamus, exerts considerable influence over the functions of other endocrine glands …

Abstract Development of the fetal hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is required for
normal fetal life and subsequent neonatal health. Activation of the fetal pituitary gland results …

Synthetic glucocorticoids have become an important clinical tool with which to advance fetal
lung maturation in women at risk of early preterm birth, and this has succeeded in reducing …

Corticotropin-Release Inhibitory Factor Hypothesis: A Review of the Evidence for the
Existence of Inhibitory as Well as Stimulatory Hypophysiotropic Regulation of …

Arginine vasotocin (AVT), a neurohypophysial hormone, has many essential functions in
birds including the regulation of salt and fluid balance, blood pressure, the stress response …

The neurohypophysial hormone arginine vasotocin (AVT) stimulates adrenocorticotropin
hormone (ACTH) secretion from the avian anterior pituitary gland resulting in increased …

Numerous studies on humans and animals have indicated that the corticotrophin-releasing
hormone (CRH) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) stimulate both individually and …

The Dexras1 gene responds to glucocorticoids with a rapid and profound induction. A
glucocorticoid response element (GRE) was identified in the 3′-flanking region (2.3 kb …

During late gestation in sheep, fetal plasma adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) and cortisol levels
increase, and these are associated with increased pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA …

The regulation of stress in birds includes a complex interaction of neural systems affecting
the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In addition to the hypothalamic …