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Pituitary Gland, Anterior

"Pituitary Gland, Anterior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The anterior glandular lobe of the pituitary gland, also known as the adenohypophysis. It secretes the ADENOHYPOPHYSEAL HORMONES that regulate vital functions such as GROWTH; METABOLISM; and REPRODUCTION.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pituitary Gland, Anterior" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pituitary Gland, Anterior" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 42 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1994 and 1997
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.