Hormone, Diabetes and Metabolism Terms

The main blood vessel that supplies blood to a kidney and its nearby adrenal gland and ureter.

The active ingredient in a drug that helps control the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood and is being studied in the prevention and treatment of some types of cancer.

A drug that helps control the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood and is being studied in the prevention and treatment of some types of cancer.

A hormone released into the blood by cells in the inner layer of the small intestine.

A drug that acts like estrogen on some tissues but blocks the effect of estrogen on other tissues.

A depression of the bone at the base of the skull where the pituitary gland is located.

The brain and gut supplies are separate, because the molecule cannot cross from blood into brain tissue, and each pool works on its own.

A rare type of ovarian tumor in which the tumor cells secrete a male sex hormone.

An imaging test used to find overactive parathyroid glands (four pea-sized glands found on the thyroid) and breast cancer cells, and to diagnose heart disease.

The pituitary's growth signal, released in bursts through the night and doing much of its work through a messenger from the liver.

Cancer of the adrenal gland that is smaller than 5 centimeters (smaller than 2 inches) and is found in the adrenal gland only.

A thyroid hormone.

A drug used with prednisone to treat hormone-resistant prostate cancer that has spread and that had been treated with docetaxel.

Sperm production needs a temperature the abdomen cannot provide, which is why these glands hang outside the body in a thin skinned pouch.

Testicular cancer is a cancer of the testis that most often affects younger and middle-aged men and includes two main tumor types.

The formal name for the male gonad, used in anatomy and reports, where the plural testes and the adjective testicular both appear constantly.

A hormone made mainly in the testes (part of the male reproductive system).

A form of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) that is made in the laboratory.

The scaffold protein on which thyroid hormone is assembled and stored, and the blood marker used to watch for returning thyroid cancer.

A gland located beneath the larynx (voice box) that makes thyroid hormone and calcitonin.