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The present paper describes a method which makes it possible to use the paraldehyde technique for the photometric determination of the neurosecretion in the posterior lobe of the hypophysis.
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Ochonskaya, I.A., Polenov, A.L. & Selivanova, G.V. Histospectrophotometry of the neurosecretory substance in the posterior lobe of the hypophysis. Histochemie 7, 327–329 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00306619
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