neuroendocrine

However, bariatric surgery affects appetite, food intake, caloric absorption, and multiple neuroendocrine pathways—all of which could contribute to its beneficial actions for people with Type 2 diabetes.

Laszlo says that these negative changes—as well as others, such as how grief affects the nervous and neuroendocrine systems—may contribute to the higher rate of death immediately after loss identified in her study.

In the mid-1980s, Gunnar studied this neuroendocrine system in newborns.

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.