{"id":39693,"date":"2024-01-06T08:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/patologia\/pituitary-tumor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:21:12","slug":"pituitary-tumor","status":"publish","type":"patologia","link":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/patologia\/pituitary-tumor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pituitary tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"more\"><span class=\"morecontent\">Tumors of the Hypophysis (or pituitary gland) are a group of predominantly benign neoplasms affecting a small structure located in the center of the brain, posterior to the root of the nose, which has the peculiarity of being a &#8220;neuroendocrine&#8221; gland, that is, composed of a pedicle and posterior portion of a nervous nature (neurohypophysis) and an anterior portion of a properly glandular nature (adenohypophysis).<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite its size of a few millimeters, the pituitary gland plays a central role in mediating the &#8220;dialogue&#8221; between the brain and the rest of the body and regulating, as a result, numerous functions of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the neurohypophysis receives hormonal stimuli from the hypothalamus (a brain structure on which the regulation of many fundamental physiological functions of an autonomic nature, such as appetite, water-salt balance, body temperature, sleep-wake rhythm, visceral functions, etc.) and transfers them to the adenohypophysis, which, based on the information received, will begin to secrete hormones directed to modulate the activity of &#8220;target glands,&#8221; such as the thyroid, ovary, testis, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14637,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"corpo":[1770],"specializzazione":[],"class_list":["post-39693","patologia","type-patologia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","corpo-endocrine-system","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"schede":null,"relazione_categoria_post":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia\/39693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/patologia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/patologia\/39693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"corpo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo?post=39693"},{"taxonomy":"specializzazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specializzazione?post=39693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}