Vol. 25 (4) 2004 Neuro endocrinology letters

Bovine pars tuberalis secretions release growth hormone from rat pars distalis of pituitary gland.

UNLABELLED: The pituitary pars tuberalis (PT) is characterized by PT-specific secretory cells which have raised the possibility of an endocrine function for this portion of adenohypophysis.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the secretion of bovine PT cells into culture medium on growth hormone (GH) response.....