METHODS Female rats of the Sprague-Dawley strain with an initial weight of 200-250 gm.
were used throughout theinvestigation. All animals were housed in individual cages at an …

Die Hormone Vasopressin, Adiuretin und Oxytocin kommen, wie wir dies früher bei Hund,
Schwein und Rind nachgewiesen haben, nicht nur in der Neurohypophyse, sondern auch …

Abstract “Without eating no life, without life no drinking.” These obvious facts may explain the
keen interest shown by psychologists and physiologists for the mechanisms behind the …

Quantitative comparisons were made between the supraoptic nuclei (SON) of rodents from
mesic and xeric habitats. Laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus, mesically adapted, were …

Schon der allgemeine, morphologisch-physiologische Abschnitt dürfte zur Genüge zum
Ausdruck gebracht haben, daß dem vegetativen oder neuroendolcrinen System, das einzig …

Considerable advance has been made in recent years in the physiology of the thyroid gland
in relation to the other organs of internal and of external secretion. However, during the past …

Diabetes insipidus, a syndrome characterized by polyuria, polydipsia and excretion of urine
of low specific gravity, may result from a deficiency of the neurohypophyseal antidiuretic …

The structure and function of a class of neurons that have been termed “neurosecretory”
form the basis for the subject of this chapter. Although Speidel (1) in 1919 described …

In discussing the physiology of lactation, the following terminology introduced by Folley and
his co-workers (Folley, 1947 b, 1949; Cowie, Folley, Cross, Harris, Jacobsohn, and …

THYROXIN IS a diuretic agent (Epstein, 1926; Marine, 1935; and Brull, 1940), particularly in
diabetes insipidus (Fisher, Ingram and Ranson, 1938). It also causes other changes in renal …