Terms Related to Neuroendocrine System

• Hypothalamo Hypophyseal System

  A neuroendocrine system of neurons, fiber tracts, endocrine tissue, and blood vessels which produces and releases pituitary hormones into the systemic circulation.

• Neuroendocrine Tumor

  Tumors whose cells possess secretory granules and originate from the neuroectoderm, i.e., the cells of the ectoblast or epiblast that program the neuroendocrine system. Common …

• Synaptic Vesicle Protein P38

  A 38-kDa integral membrane glycoprotein of the presynaptic vesicles in neuron and neuroendocrine cells. It is expressed by a variety of normal and neoplastic neuroendocrine …

• Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

  A group of carcinomas which share a characteristic morphology, often being composed of clusters and trabecular sheets of round “blue cells”, granular chromatin, and an …

• APUD Cell

  Cells derived from primitive cell types in the neural crest. During ontogeny they migrate to the foregut and specific locations of the neuroendocrine system. Properly …