This article discusses the importance of hormonal aberrations and their potential as targets for pharmacotherapies. It introduces psych neuroendocrinology as a new approach that integrates psychiatry, ...

The endocrine system consists of glands and tissues that produce and secrete hormones to regulate and coordinate vital bodily functions. This article, the second in an eight-part series on the ...

Once a hormone has been used, it is destroyed by the liver. Hormones can control the body, and the effects are much slower than the nervous system, but they last for longer. There are important ...

Communication between the immune and neuroendocrine systems is an active continuous process necessary to maintain health. 1,2 How this transpires in reality is curious. In brief, inflammatory markers ...

Innate immune responses are regulated by microorganisms and cell death, as well as by a third class of stress signal from the nervous and endocrine systems. The innate immune system also feeds back, ...

Understand the effects of changes to the endocrine, nervous and reproductive systems in pregnancy and potential role of the microbiome in maternal health. Abstract Hormonal changes are essential for a ...

The endocrine system is a network of glands that produce and release hormones. These hormones help control many important body functions, including the body's ability to change calories into energy ...

A gland is a structure which secretes a specific substance in the body. Endocrine glands are ductless glands which secretes a chemical substance called hormone. Being ductless gland they release their ...