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The neurohypophysis of the toad Bufo arenarum Hensel can be subdivided into two well defined zones: the median eminence and the neural lobe. In its turn, the median eminence consists of two zones: a neural subependymal one, containing the axons of the hypothalamic-neurohypophysial tract; and a glandular one, made up of the capillaries of the primary plexus of the portal hypophysial system and of neurosecretory axons.
Different staining techniques and certain experimental procedures (inanition, dehydration and adenohypophysectomy) showed that there are differences between the neurosecretory material of the neural lobe, which is a place of hormone liberation into the systematic circulation, and the neurosecretory material of the median eminence, which is the site of release of adenohypophysis-stimulating substances into the portal vessels.
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This work was introduced at the III Sesiones Científicas de Biología, Rosario, Argentina, March, 1965. The study was partially supported by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina) and The Rockefeller Foundation (School grant RF-58028).
Fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina. The author wishes to express his indebtedness to Dr. M. H. Burgos and Dr. F. Sacerdote for their help and criticism, to Miss B. Rodriguez. Miss M. Masot and Mr. L. Castro for their technical assistance.
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Rodriguez, E.M. Differences between median eminence and neural lobe in amphibians. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung 74, 308–316 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00401259
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