neuroendocrine
/noor-oh-en-duh-krin, -krahyn, -kreen, nyoor-/US // ˌnʊər oʊˈɛn də krɪn, -ˌkraɪn, -ˌkrin, ˌnyʊər- //UK // (ˌnjʊərəʊˈɛndəʊˌkraɪn) //
神经内分泌,神经内分泌科,神经内分泌学,神经内分泌学派
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of or relating to the interactions between the nervous and endocrine systems, especially in relation to hormones.
Examples
In the mid-1980s, Gunnar studied this neuroendocrine system in newborns.
Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer.
Jobs learned in 2003 that he had an extremely rare form of this cancer, an islet-cell neuroendocrine tumor.
Other neuroendocrine tumors produce gastrin, glucagon, and other digestive hormones.
In part, that is because neuroendocrine cancers tend to be quite slow growing, or indolent.
“Neuroendocrine tumors are highly vascularized”—full of blood vessels on which they depend for nutrients, says Kulke.
Broad limits to functional reproductive activity seem to be set by the photoperiod—neuroendocrine system.
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