Adenohypophysical hormones

Tache Y, Brown M, Collu R (1979) Effects of neuropeptides on adenohypophyseal hormone release to acute stress in male rats. Endocrinology 705 220-224. 

Kuret, J.A. and Murad, F. (1990). Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. A.Goodman Gilman, T.W.Rall, A.S.Nies, and P.Taylor, eds. (New York Pergamon Press), pp. 1334 1360. 

Ascoll, M. ef al. (1996) Adenohypophyseal hormones and their hypothalamic releasing factors, in The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 9th edn, (eds J.G. Hardman et a/.). McGraw-Hill, New York, chapter 55. pp. 1363-1382. 

Kuret J A, Murad F (1992). Adenohypophyseal hormones and related sub-stances. In A Goodman, T W Gilman, A S Rail, et al. (eds.). The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. McGraw-Hill, Singapore, pp. 1335-1360. 

The secretion of anterior pituitary hormones is controlled in part by hypothalamic regulatory factors that are stored in the hypothalamus and are released into the adenohypophyseal portal vasculature. Hypothalamic regulatory factors so far identified are peptides with the exception of dopamine. Secretion of anterior pituitary hormones is also controlled by factors produced more distally that circulate in the blood. Predominant control of hormone production may be relatively simple, as with thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), the production of which is primarily stimulated by thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and inhibited by thyroid hormones, or it may be complex, as with prolactin, the production of which is affected by many neurotransmitters and hormones. 

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