As soon as your brain senses danger , it goes into fight-or-flight mode and sends orders to outposts in the adrenal and pituitary glands to mobilize the hormones adrenaline andcortisol .
The new research supports the idea that humans have more than one uniform response to stress and that fear and anger provoke different responses from our nervous systems and the parts of our brain , such as the pituitary , that deal with tough situations .
Instead , the team discovered that the pituitary does not lose its ability to respond to insulin .
这样一来,研究团队发现脑垂体并不会消失对胰岛素响应的能力。
Chronically high levels of luteinizing hormone and other signals released by the pituitary disrupt the natural cycle of fertility hormones that signal the ovaries to release eggs .
由脑垂体持续释放更多的促黄体激素和其他信号,这便破坏了传递信号给卵巢释放卵子的生育激素正常循环。
Removing the insulin receptors in the pituitary keeps the gland from going into overdrive and releasing too much of the fertility hormones in the obese mice .
去除脑垂体中胰岛素受体可阻止腺体进一步代谢,从而在肥胖老鼠体内释放更多的生育激素。
As insulin levels rise with weight gain , the pituitary releases ever higher levels of the fertility-regulating luteinizing hormone .