{"id":1303,"date":"2015-12-19T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2016-01-17T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T04:36:30","slug":"brain-pituitary-gland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2015\/12\/19\/brain-pituitary-gland\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain &#8211; Pituitary Gland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pituitary gland, also called the hypophysis, is associated with the endocrine system. \u00a0It it located on the ventral side of the brain attached to the hypothalamus. \u00a0 Under the direction of the brain, the pituitary gland controls the secretion of hormones that regulate growth, blood pressure, sexual development, and metabolism. \u00a0 It is known as the &#8220;master gland&#8221; \u00a0because it sends messages to other endocrine glands, like the testes, adrenal glands and the thyroid.<\/p>\n<p>During dissection, the pituitary gland is usually removed when the dura mater is peeled away, leaving behind the infundibulum (pituitary stalk). \u00a0The image below shows the intact pituitary with most of the connecting dura intact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1305\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"brain with pituitary\" width=\"800\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary-205x250.jpg 205w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary-409x500.jpg 409w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary-768x938.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/brain-pituitary.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pituitary gland, also called the hypophysis, is associated with the endocrine system. \u00a0It it located on the ventral side of the brain attached to the hypothalamus. \u00a0 Under the direction of the brain, the pituitary gland controls the secretion of hormones that regulate growth, blood pressure, sexual development, and metabolism. \u00a0 It is known as the &#8220;master gland&#8221; \u00a0because it sends messages to other endocrine glands, like the testes, adrenal glands and the thyroid. During dissection, the pituitary gland is usually removed when the dura mater is peeled away, leaving behind the infundibulum (pituitary stalk). \u00a0The image below shows <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,65,231,232,136,226,182],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-anatomy","tag-brain","tag-endocrine","tag-gland","tag-hypothalamus","tag-infundibulum","tag-pituitary","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}