CORTICOLIBERIN (CRF) ACTIVITY OF RAT NEUROHYPOPHYSIS
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 12 (4) , 204-208
Abstract
Corticoliberin (CRF) activity of the rat stalk-median eminence region (SME) and neural lobe of the pituitary (NL) was tested in vitro using cultured cells of anterior pituitary. The activity of NL was more than 50% lower than that of SME. The parallelism of dose-response curves suggests that ACTH/releasing substances originating from NL and SME may be qualitatively identical. Neurosecretory cells producing corticoliberin apparently form a continuous neurohemal system of the median eminence, the stalk and the neural lobe.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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