neuroendocrine

[ noor-oh-en-duh-krin, -krahyn, -kreen, nyoor- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to the interactions between the nervous and endocrine systems, especially in relation to hormones.

neuroendocrine

/ ˌnjʊərəʊˈɛndəʊˌkraɪn /

of, relating to, or denoting the dual control of certain body functions by both nervous and hormonal stimulation
neuroendocrine system

First recorded in 1920–25; neuro- + endocrine

Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer.

Jobs learned in 2003 that he had an extremely rare form of this cancer, an islet-cell neuroendocrine tumor.

Other neuroendocrine tumors produce gastrin, glucagon, and other digestive hormones.

In part, that is because neuroendocrine cancers tend to be quite slow growing, or indolent.

“Neuroendocrine tumors are highly vascularized”—full of blood vessels on which they depend for nutrients, says Kulke.

Broad limits to functional reproductive activity seem to be set by the photoperiod—neuroendocrine system.

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