by University of Turku Macrophages, marked in yellow, connect hormone-secreting cells (magenta) and blood vessels (gray) in the mouse pituitary gland. Scale is 10 µm. Credit: Henna Lehtonen In a new study published in Cell Reports, Finnish researchers show that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in the pituitary gland, help regulate hormonal balance. It is possible that in...
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Purified pituitary tissue generated from stem cells
by Cell Press Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have successfully converted human pluripotent stem cells into purified pituitary cells that aggregated into hormone-secreting organoids. As reported June 8 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, transplantation of these 3D pituitaries into mice with hypopituitarism resulted in long-lasting improvement in levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which is normally...