Die Mitschrift des Interviews mit Prof. John AH Wass zum Thema “Pituitary Gland”

The pituitary gland is a very exciting little gland in the head which causes the stimulation of a number of different hormones, including the thyroid, the adrenal glands, and it also causes growth and makes the production of prolactin, which is the hormone, which causes milk, and that’s the anterior gland. The pituitary has also got a posterior gland, the main function of which is to stop you passing too much urine and that’s called antidiuretic hormone.

The pituitary gland is in the middle of the head, just between my fingers there, on the underside of the brain and it’s just underneath the eye nerves and really behind the back of the nose.

Pituitary tumours are divided into two main categories. The first is non functioning pituitary tumours which don’t make an excess of any of the hormones and then there are the functioning pituitary tumours. The commonest of these is the prolactin secreting tumor which makes too much milk hormone or prolactinoma. The second commonest is acromegaly or gigantism in children which makes too much growth hormone. The third is cushing’s disease which makes too much of the hormone that stimulates the adrenal glands and therefore releases too much cortisol, too much steroids.

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I am the professor of endocrinology in Oxford University in England. I have a special research interest in the pituitary gland. We have published a large number of papers on the subject of the pituitary. I’ve edited the Oxford textbook of endocrinology. I’ve been the president of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies and the president of the Endocrine Society in England.

Oxford University is a very well-known place in the university world. It’s got a special interest and has had a big department of endocrinology over the last 15 or 16 years and has a special interest in the pituitary gland and research into the pituitary gland, as well as a number of other hormone problems that we’ve been researching over the last 15 or 16 years.