Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Histological observations on the pituitary gland and the glomerular body of the larvae of the marine teleost, Hexagrammos otakii

  • Published:
Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und Mikroskopische Anatomie Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Summary

In the larvae of the marine teleost, Hexagrammos otakii, the prolactin, ACTH, STH and pars-intermedia cells as well as the neurohypophysis and glomerular body showed no histological change at the time of hatching. These cells or organs do not seem to be specifically involved in the mechanisms of adjustment to the hypertonic osmotic stress at this time. The size of the nuclei of the prolactin cells increased in fresh-water (F. W.) and that of the ACTH cells decreased in 2/3, 1/2 and 1/3 sea-water (S.W.). The amount of chrome-alum haematoxylin-positive material in the neurohypophysis of fish immersed in 1/2 S.W., 1/3 S.W. and F.W. was less than that of the control fish. There was a difference in the glomerular ratio between the fish kept in F. W. and control fish. And the red blood cells in the glomerulus of the larvae kept in 1/2 and 1/3 S.W. apparently increased in number in comparison with the control fish.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Ball, J. N., Baker, B. I.: The pituitary gland: anatomy and histophysiology. In: Fish physiology (W. S. Hoar and D. J. Randall, eds.) vol. II, p. 1–110. New York-London: Academic Press 1969.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ball, J. N., Chester Jones, I., Forster, M. E., Hargreaves, G., Howkins, E. F., Milne, K. P.: Measurement of plasma cortisol levels in the eel Anguilla anguilla in relation to osmotic adjustments. J. Endocr. 50, 75–96 (1971).

    Google Scholar 

  • Chester Jones, I., Chan, D.K.O., Henderson, I. W., Ball, J. N.: The adrenocortical steroids, adrenocorticotropin and the corpuscles of Stannius. In: Fish physiology (W.S. Hoar and D. J. Randall, eds.) vol. II, p. 321–376. New York-London: Academic Press 1969.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ichikawa, T., Kobayashi, H., Zimmermann, P., Müller, U.: Pituitary response to environmental osmotic changes in the larval guppy, Lebistes reticulatus (Peters). Z. Zellforsch. 1973 (in press).

  • Lam, T. J., Leatherland, L. F.: Effects of prolactin on the glomerulus of the marine threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus L., from trachurus, after transfer from seawater to fresh water, during the late autumn and early winter. Canad. J. Zool. 47, 245–250 (1969).

    Google Scholar 

  • Maetz, J.: Physiological aspects of neurohypophysial function in fishes with some reference to the amphibia. Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. 9, 107–140 (1963).

    Google Scholar 

  • Motais, R., Maetz, J.: Arginine vasotocine et évolution de la permeabilité branchiale au sodium au cours du passage d'eau douce en eau de mer chez la flet. J. Physiol. (Paris) 59, 271 (1967).

    Google Scholar 

  • Oksche, A., Laws, D. F., Kamemoto, F. I., Farner, D. S.: The hypothalamo-hypophysial neurosecretory system of the white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii. Z. Zellforsch. 51, 1–42 (1959).

    Google Scholar 

  • Olivereau, M.: Réactions observées chez l'Anguille maintenue dans un milieu privé d'électrolytes, en particulier au niveau du système hypothalamo-hypophysaire. Z. Zellforsch. 80, 264–285 (1967).

    Google Scholar 

  • Olivereau, M.: Étude cytologique de l'hypophyse du Muge, en particulier en relation avec la salinité extérieure. Z. Zellforsch. 87, 545–561 (1968).

    Google Scholar 

  • Olivereau, M., Chartier-Baraduc, M. M.: Action de la prolactine chez l'Anguille intacte et hypophysectomisée. II. Effets sur les électrolytes plasmatiques (sodium, potassium et calcium). Gen. comp. Endocr. 7, 27–36 (1966).

    Google Scholar 

  • Sexton, A. W.: Factors influencing the uptake of sodium against a concentration gradient in the goldfish gill. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Missouri, 1955.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Misaki Marine Biological Station, University of Tokyo, Kanagawa-ken, Misaki, Japan

    Tomoyuki Ichikawa

Authors
  1. Tomoyuki Ichikawa
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

The author wishes to express his gratitude to Professor Hideshi Kobayashi for his valuable guidance during the course of this study. The author is indebted to Dr. Masaaki Inoue, Kanagawa Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station, for supplying the eggs of Hexagrammos.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Ichikawa, T. Histological observations on the pituitary gland and the glomerular body of the larvae of the marine teleost, Hexagrammos otakii . Z.Zellforsch 141, 493–503 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00307120

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00307120

Key words

Search

Navigation