Abstract
1. In urethane/pentobarbitone anaesthetized male rats, the hypothalamus and pituitary stalk were exposed by a transpharyngeal approach. Cells recorded with glass micro-electrodes from the ventral hypothalamus near the bifurcation of the internal carotid artery were identified as supraoptic neurones only when their antidromic action potential evoked at constant latency by stimulation of the pituitary stalk was cancelled by collision with a spontaneously occurring action potential.

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