Accession Number:
AD0285301
Title:
HYPOTHALMIC AND FOREBRAIN AREAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTROL OF SECRETION OF THYROTHOPHIC AND ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONES
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Corporate Author:
LONDON UNIV (ENGLAND)
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Report Date:
1962-04-30
Pagination or Media Count:
1.0
Abstract:
Projects concerned 1 The control the hypothalamus exerts over thyrotrophic hormone secretion from the anterior pituitary gland, 2 The development of an assay method for measuring the concentration of thyrotrophic hormone in blood, and the application of this method to several of the other individual projects, 3 The humoral mechanism by which the hypothalamus controls the secretion of thyrotrophic hormone from the anterior pituitary gland, 4 The humoral mechanism by which the hypothalamus control the secretion of gonadotrophic hormone Luteinizing hormone, 5 The effects exerted on the mature central nervous system by the feed-back action of gonadal hormones, and 6 The inductive or organizing effect exerted on the immature central nervous system by the feed-back of gonadal hormones. Author