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Experimental Electron Microscopic Studies on the Neurovascular Link between the Hypothalamus and Anterior Pituitary

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Aspects of Neuroendocrinology

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Histological, histochemical and, recently, electron microscopic studies have demonstrated that a great number of hypothalamic nerve fibres terminate on the capillaries of the hypophysial portal vessels in the median eminence (for lit. cf. Bargmann, 1953; Szentágothai, 1964; Rinne, 1960, 1966; Fuxe, 1964). From the morphological point of view, electron microscopic examinations have shown that these perivascular nerve endings contain a large number of granular and/or agranular vesicles (Rinne, 1966; Monroe, 1967; Rodríguez, 1969). The nature and functional significance of these inclusions is not exactly known, but increasing numbers of current experimental studies aim at clarifying the matter (Rinne and Arstila, 1966; Akmayev et al., 1967; Rinne et al., 1967; Pellegrino de Iraldi and Jaim Etcheverry, 1967; Kobayashi et al., 1967, 1968; Sano et al., 1967; Streefkerk, 1967; Zambrano and de Robertis, 1968; Zambrano, 1969).

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Rinne, U.K. (1970). Experimental Electron Microscopic Studies on the Neurovascular Link between the Hypothalamus and Anterior Pituitary. In: Bargmann, W., Scharrer, B. (eds) Aspects of Neuroendocrinology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46207-8_22

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