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The '''posterior pituitary''' gland at the base of the brain is the source of the hormones [[vasopress ...ncentrations of the hormones in the circulation for over 30 days. Thus the posterior pituitary gland is a massive store of these hormones. However under conditions of hig

...g the horse, vasopressin secreted into the systemic circulation from the [[posterior pituitary gland]] is also an important regulator of ACTH secretion. The corticotrophs

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...systemic concentrations of vasopressin resulting from secretion from the [[posterior pituitary gland]] can be significant influences on ACTH secretion.

...thalamo-hypophysial portal circulation. By contrast, the hormones of the [[posterior pituitary]] gland ([[oxytocin]] and [[vasopressin]])are secreted into the systemic ci

...tains [[magnocellular neurosecretory cell]]s whose axons extend into the [[posterior pituitary]], parvocellular neurosecretory cells that project to the median eminence, ...d down the axons and released from neurosecretory nerve terminals in the [[posterior pituitary gland]]. Similar magnocellular neurones are found in the [[supraoptic nucle

...swellings in the axons of the neurosecretory neurons that innervate the [[posterior pituitary]] gland. They are named after Percy Theodore Herring (1872-1967), who first ...s]], and transported down the neuronal axons to their storage sites in the posterior pituitary. When newly formed vesicles first arrive at the pituitary gland, they are f

...em'' 191:21-8 PMID 14850440</ref><ref>du Vigneaud V (1954) Hormones of the posterior pituitary gland: oxytocin and vasopressin ''Harvey Lect'' 50:1-26 PMID 13306033</ref>

...cific receptors for them. For example, [[oxytocin]] is released from the [[posterior pituitary]] gland of the mother when an infant is suckling at the breast; oxytocin ac ...wth hormone]], which acts on [[bone]], [[muscle]] and the [[liver]]. The [[posterior pituitary]] gland secretes [[antidiuretic hormone]], also called vasopressin, and [[o

...e to hypo-osmotic challenge <ref>Miyata S ''et al.'' (1997) Taurine in rat posterior pituitary: localization in astrocytes and selective release by hypoosmotic stimulatio Pituicytes are the principal cell type intrinsic to the posterior pituitary gland, making up 25-30% of the volume of the gland. Most express [[glial fi

...on the role of hormones, and in particular in how the brain, through the [[posterior pituitary gland]], controls the balance of water in the body by the production and se

...sopressin is mainly present in magnocellular neurones which project to the posterior pituitary, CRH is present in parvocellular neurones which project to the external lay

...t is synthesized in hypothalamic neurons and transported down axons of the posterior pituitary for secretion into blood' (from on-line textbook, ''Pathophysiology of the

...arts of the cell but especially to the neurosecretory nerve endings in the posterior pituitary gland. During transport, the precursor molecule is cleaved to yield a signa ...n these cases, the vasopressin that has these effects is released from the posterior pituitary gland, by the nerve endings of magnocellular neuroendocrine cells. The same

...thalamo-hypophysial portal circulation. By contrast, the hormones of the [[posterior pituitary]] gland ([[oxytocin]] and [[vasopressin]])are secreted into the systemic ci [[Oxytocin]] and [[vasopressin]], the two [[peptide hormone]]s of the [[posterior pituitary gland]] (the "neurohypophysis"), are secreted into the systemic circulation

Two of these sites, the ''[[median eminence]]'' and the ''[[posterior pituitary]] gland'', are sites of [[neurosecretion]]: neuroendocrine neurons whose c

...arly every) neuron in the nucleus has one long axon that projects to the [[posterior pituitary gland]], where it gives rise to about 2,000 neurosecretory nerve terminals. ...-40. PMID 469785</ref> by studying vasopressin secretion from the isolated posterior pituitary gland ''in vitro''. Vasopressin secretion could be evoked by electrical sti

...timated 10,000- 19,000 magnocellular neurosecretory cells project to the [[posterior pituitary]] gland, half of which contain vasopressin and half oxytocin. Each supraopt ...tuitary with few if any collateral branches. Each axon when it reaches the posterior pituitary, gives rise to about 2,000 neurosecretory terminals and about 400 large axo

...nucleus; all of these neurons are neuroendocrine cells that project to the posterior pituitary gland, but the functions of oxytocin and vasopressin are very different - o ..., contains [[oxytocin]] and [[vasopressin]] neurons which project to the [[posterior pituitary]], but also contains other neurons that regulate [[ACTH]] and [[TSH]] secre

...nucleus and the neurones, and between the glial cells (pituicytes) in the posterior pituitary and the neurosecretory nerve endings there; two classic papers published wi