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The pars tuberalis: the missing link in the photoperiodic regulation of prolactin secretion?
1Molecular Neuroendocrinology Group, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK. p.morgan@rri.sari.ac.uk
Journal of Neuroendocrinology
|March 16, 2000
Abstract:
The endocrine function of the pars tuberalis of the pituitary gland has been an enigma for many years. Recent work suggests that one of its primary functions in seasonal mammals is to mediate photoperiodically regulated changes in prolactin secretion via an unidentified factor called tuberalin.