Functions of the Median-Eminence Gland
- 15 September 1966
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 275 (11) , 600-607
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196609152751109
Abstract
DR. Hiatt asked me to change the title, "Functions of the Median-Eminence Gland," because he was afraid that no one would know what I was talking about — whether it was the prostate gland or some other subject that is both medial and eminential. I have chosen this title to emphasize the fact that the median eminence forms a glandular part of the brain, which has as its function the regulation of the anterior pituitary gland, just as the neurohypophysis is a neural gland whose secretions affect kidney, uterus and breast. This theme will be illustrated by recent observations about . . .Keywords
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