The endocrine system comprises glands and tissues that produce hormones to regulate and coordinate vital bodily functions. This article, the third in an eight-part series on the endocrine system, ...

Steven L. Wissig, The Anatomy of Secretion in the Follicular Cells of the Thyroid Gland. II. The Effect of Acute Thyrotrophic Hormone Stimulation on the Secretory Apparatus, The Journal of Cell ...

Experts take a deep dive to explain what Hashimoto's disease that actor Camilla Luddington is dealing with, and how it can be ...

IN the twenty-ninth Bedson Lecture delivered on February 8 in Newcastle, Prof. C. R. Harington dealt with the relation of the thyroid gland to iodine. He traced in detail the parallel histories of ...

John Simon, On the Comparative Anatomy of the Thyroid Gland. [Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London, Vol. 5 (1843 - 1850), p. 515 ...

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of the neck, immediately below the Adam’s apple. MTC starts in specialized thyroid cells known as parafollicular cells, or C cells.

Anatomy The thyroid is a bi-lobed gland, often described as resembling a butterfly or bow tie. It is positioned in the neck, between the C5 and T1 vertebrae, just below the thyroid cartilage (Adam’s ...