#pituitary

[danskjavlarna]

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It all connects: vintage skeleton imagery.

[crippledcryptidd]

I had an endocrinology appointment with a new doctor today and it went so well

He actually listened and is looking into whats happening

Right now he thinks it might be pituitary dysfunction and theres test ordered like nearly 20 labs have been ordered i have to get them a different day though since i have to fast and i ate before my appointment

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[heardatmedschool]

Student 1: What did the pituitary say to the thyroid when it didn’t want to work?

Student 2: ...

Student 1: Tshhhh.

[marmee413]

It's Been a Minute

Wow, nearly a year since I posted anything. I hope I haven't lost my three readers.

2022 was a year, wasn't it. Is COVID 19 gone? Is is here and stronger than ever? Seems as if we are on the Carousel of Life (Thank you Joni Mitchell).

My personal journey, lots of money problems and yet we made it through the year. First time I ever met my Out Of Pocket Insuance expenses. November and December were nice not having to pay anything for health care services.

Anyway- from April through at least June I was hardly here. Admitted to a hospital close to my house after the headache thing, then no ability to eat or drink anything (not even vodka!) My abilities to walk just gradually went away by April and a 2nd visit to the ER.

The hospital where the parameds delivered me, from what my oldest tells me because I don't remember details of that visit at all, didn't want to admit me. They convinced the medical staff of my symptoms and that I was losing consciousness more and more and staff finally acquiesced to admitting me. r

After five days of trying to get me to eat and drink, hospital said, she's got to go to a SNF unit (Skilled Nursing Facility). I was no better, I think due to the hospital's negligence-another story-but there I went, to the old folk's home, the place where people go to die, nearly the most humiliating experience of my life.

It was from there, I had a neurosurgeon appointment. The SNF unit's driver, I think his name was Benny the Taxi, got me there, in a most unnerving process.

I tried to talk to the neurosurgeon, attempting to express my symptoms, couldn't think of the titles of some of my specialists, and I must have looked terrible. He said, "it looks to me like you need to be in a real hospital." Nearly crying, I responded with a pitiful, "Yes please!"

Once I was almost immediately admitted to the "real" hospital, so many things happened. I vaguely being taken to tests, many tests, and when in bed, so many blood tests, so many meds. I was pleasantly surprised that staff seemed to really care what happened to me.

Stay tuned...

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of July 23rd history...

1829 - William Burt patents America’s 1st “typographer” - typewriter

1904 - Ice cream cone created during St Louis World’s fair

1937 - Isolation of Pituitary hormone announced

1967 - 1st successful liver transplant

1985 - Commodore unveils personal computer Amiga 1000

1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp discovered; becomes visible to naked eye nearly a year later

2015 - NASA’s Kepler mission announces discovery of the most earth-like planet yet Kepler 452b, 1400 light years from earth (pictured)

[bpod-bpod]

Wonder Gland

“All models are wrong, some are useful” said statistician George Box – we might say something similar about living models like organoids. Grown in a lab from stem cells, this mouse organoid mimics the early development of the pituitary gland. While it’s not an exact copy, fluorescent markers highlight stem cells (red) and pituitary proteins (green), as a high-powered microscope zooms through different levels of cells (all highlighted in blue). Researchers examine the organoid in ways that would be impossible in the real organ – using growth factors to guide the tissue’s growth, or watching as stem cells react to heal damage. The real gland, a pea-sized structure at the base of our brains, produces several essential hormones. Watching how groups of stem cells work in these organoids gives useful clues to how the it might go awry in mice and humans alike.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Emma Laporte and colleagues

Laboratory of Tissue Plasticity in Health and Disease, Cluster of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, July 2022

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