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The demonstration of perikarya of mediocellular neurones producing LRF, using indirect immunofluorescence on slides and anti synthetic LRF antibodies, requires both their activation and the inhibition of their axoplasmic transport. This fact suggests that LRF is present in an immunoreactive form, but usually in very low concentrations.
Perikarya of neurons producing LRF are found principally in the preoptic and septal areas of the rat and decrease caudally, particularly beyond the retrochiasmatic area.
Most of the axons coming from these perikarya are incorporated in the hypothalamoinfundibular tract and terminate around the capillaries of the primary portal plexus, particularly those of interealar plexus. Other axons (or axon collaterals) may be found in various areas (suprachiasmal crista, epithalamus, amygdala, mesencephalon) and form circuits recalling the “extrahypophyseal pathways” described for the magnocellular Gomori-positive neurons of the SON and PVN. These axons are probably concerned in intersegmental regulations involving “neurosecretory synapses”, particularly of the axosomatic type.
The placement of stereotaxic lesions was used to determine the topography and direction of axoplasmic flow of the axons transporting LRF.
The infundibular immunoreactive material, already discernible at the end of gestation in the foetus, shows considerable variations between birth and puberty, during the estrous cycle and under various other physiological or experimental conditions.
The observations made under various experimental or physiological conditions suggest that, in the guinea-pig in particular, the greater part of the hypothalamic immunoreactive material is concentrated in the infundibular area. This area of accumulation is comparable to the distal neurohypophysis of the Gomori-positive neurosecretory system coming from the SON and PVN.
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Barry, J., Dubois, M.P. & Poulain, P. LRF producing cells of the mammalian hypothalamus. Z.Zellforsch 146, 351–366 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02346227
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