Sentences with phrase «endocrine tissues»

Furthermore a majority of all inflammation can be traced back to the muscles as they are technically the largest endocrine tissue of the body.

If the muscles are not functioning properly or are hypertonic / spastic they are actually producing a host of negative byproducts directly from the muscles themselves as well as through crosstalk to other endocrine tissues via mechanisms related to cytokine / myokine function.

Catechol estrogens have been identified and measured in rat brain and various endocrine tissues with the use of a sensitive radioenzymatic assay.

We conclude that juvenile hormone deficiency, which results from InR signal pathway mutation, is sufficient to extend life - span, and that in flies, insulin - like ligands nonautonomously mediate aging through retardation of growth or activation of specific endocrine tissue.

Other Endocrine Tissues There are other tissues in the body that release hormones, although this is not their primary responsibility in your body.

Neurons and endocrine tissues - such as the brain, pituitary, pancreas and adrenal gland - make especially important signaling molecules: peptidergic neurotransmitters and peptide hormones.

Recently, skeletal muscle has been recognized as an endocrine tissue with the capacity to secrete cytokines and growth factors, known as myokines, which can act on distant tissues.

Although insulin - producing cells are found in the endocrine tissue of the pancreas, a new mouse study suggests that abnormalities in the exocrine tissue could cause cell non-autonomous effects that promotes diabetes - like symptoms.