Abstract
According to previous studies (Rodríguez et al., 1970) the ventral group of neurons of the toad preoptic nucleus (VPO) gives origin to the Gomori-positive fibers that end in the neural lobe (Fig. 1). Many neurons of the VPO are bipolar with one process directed towards the hypophysial region (“hypophysial process”) and the other one towards the ependymal lining of the preoptic recess (“ventricular process”) (Fig. 2). The ventricular process is Gomori-positive in its initial portion more proximal to the perikaryon but is generally Gomori-negative in the vicinity of the ependyma (Fig. 2). Only occasionally the whole ventricular process, including its ventricular ending, is stained by the Gomori method (Fig. 3).
Fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina and partially supported by a Grant of the Wellcome Trust Foundation (England). The author wishes to thank Prof. H.-D. Dellmann for providing certain facilities in his department.
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Rodríguez, E.M. (1970). Morphological and Functional Relationships between the Hypothalamo-Neurohypophysial System and Cerebrospinal Fluid. In: Bargmann, W., Scharrer, B. (eds) Aspects of Neuroendocrinology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46207-8_39
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