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THE neural process of the pituitary gland is a derivative of the neural tube, and in adult animals remains structurally continuous with the hypothalamus by means of a stalk consisting of nerve fibres. Until recently it was considered to be a true endocrine gland ; but today it is widely held that the process serves as an organ for the storage and release of hormones elaborated by the neurones of certain hypothalamic nuclei1.
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HOLMES, R. A Nucleus of Nerve Cells in the Ferret Pituitary Gland. Nature 184, 1819 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841819a0
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