[The relationship between age, different degrees of atherosclerosis and comparative morphofunctional characteristics of the adenohypophysis].
A total of 65 adenohypophyses of male and female patients who had suffered from latent and manifesting forms of atherosclerosis, and 43 adenohypophyses of practically healthy people (withoug atherosclerosis) were studied. The morphometrical method of investigation was broadly used in this work, which made it possible to carry out mathematical treatment of the data obtained. The most drastic changes in the structure of the adenohypophysis were noted in cases in whom death had occurred as a result of acute coronary insufficiency which was considered as a variant of stress situation in the organism. An intimate connection between the morphofunctional state of the adenohypophysis and histomorphological changes in the peripheral endocrine glands depending upon age, sex and manifestation of atherosclerosis is shown.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*
Sravnitel'naia morfofunktsional'naia kharakteristika adenogipofiza v zavisimosti ot vozrasta i ateroskleroza razlichnoĭ stepeni vyrazhennosti