REDUCTION OF β-ENDORPHIN CONTENT IN THE RAT PITUITARY AFTER DEHYDRATION AND ADRENALECTOMY

1 September 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research

Vol. 14 (3) , 213-215
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3011.1979.tb01927.x

Abstract

Both dehydration and adrenalectomy of rats caused a significant reduction of immunoreactive β-endorphin in the pituitary gland. β-Endorphin in hypothalamus, however, was not altered in either dehydrated or adrenalectomized rats.

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