Abstract
The term “neurosecretory” has been applied to Chose neurones in which considerable quantities of presumed secretory material can be demonstrated by simple histological means, and which do not apparently innervate any muscle or exocrine organ. Moreover it has been shown that many neurosecretory neurones contain physiologically active substances and that the spatial arrangement of these neurones indicates that their contained secretory products are released into the blood-stream and there act as hormones (6).
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Knowles, F.G.W. (1958). Electron Microscopy of a Crustacean Neurosecretory Organ. In: Bargmann, W., Hanström, B., Scharrer, B., Scharrer, E. (eds) Zweites Internationales Symposium über Neurosekretion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53252-8_21
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