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. 1981;215(2):333-40.
doi: 10.1007/BF00239119.

Relationship of the central ACTH-immunoreactive opiocortin system to the median eminence and the pituitary gland of the rat

K M Knigge, S A Joseph

Relationship of the central ACTH-immunoreactive opiocortin system to the median eminence and the pituitary gland of the rat

K M Knigge et al. Cell Tissue Res. 1981.

Abstract

By immunocytochemical methods, the present study describes ACTH-immunoreactive fibers in the pituitary stalk and neural lobe. This opiocortin-hypothalamo-neural lobe projection arises in a bed nucleus of perikarya in the basal hypothalamus, follows supraoptico-hypophyseal fibers in the zona interna of the median eminence, and distributes throughout the neural lobe. No ACTH-immunoreactive fibers project to the zona externa; some are present in the subependymal layer and at the lateral margins of the median eminence. Further studies must identify the role of these fibers in posterior lobe function. It remains also to be determined whether this system terminates upon primary pituitary portal capillaries and delivers opiocortin neuropeptides to the adenohypophysis.

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