A novel and simple technique for ectopic transplantation of the pituitary gland

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 304-310

  Naik, D R ^a   Das, S ^a   Patnaik, L ^a   Samantaray, H ^a  

^a UTKAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY CAPSULE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; QUAIL; RAT; SILASTIC TUBE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TADPOLE; TAIL; TOAD;

EID: 0031238689     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6927     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Balthazart J., Schumacher M., Ottinger M. A. Sexual differences in the Japanese quail: Behavior, morphology, and intracellular metabolism of testosterone. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 51:1983;191-207.
2. Campbell G. T., Wagoner J., Colosi P., Soares M. J., Talamantes F. Development and retention of phenotypically specialized cells in pituitary allografts in the hamster (Mesocricetus auratus. Cell Tissue Res. 251:1988;215-220.
3. Desclin L. A propos du mechanisms d'action des oestrogens sur le lobe anterieur de l'hypophyse chez le rat. Ann. Endocrinol. (Paris. 11:1950;656-659.
4. Everett J. W. Luteotrophic function of autografts of the rat hypophysis. Endocrionology. 54:1954;658-690.
5. Everett J. W. Functional corpora lutea maintained for months by autografts of rat hypophysis. Endocrinology. 58:1956;786-796.
6. Gon G., Shirasawa N., Ishikawa H. Appearance of cyst- and doctule-like structures and their role in the restoration of the rat pituitary autograft. Anat. Rec. 217:1987;371-378.
7. Halász B., Pupp L., Uhlarik S. Hypophysiotrophic area in the hypothalamus. J. Endocrinol. 25:1962;147-154.
8. Holmes R. L., Ball J. N. The Pituitary Gland. A Comparative Account. 1974;Cambridge Univ. Press, London.
9. Inoue K., Taniguchi Y., Kurosumi K. Differentiation of striated muscle fibers in pituitary gland grafts transplanted beneath the kidney capsule. Arch. Hist. Jpn. 50:1987;567-578.
10. Ishibashi T., Shiino M. Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical changes of prolactin cells of grafted pituitary after the injection of dopamine in the albino rat. Acta. Anat. 131:1988;66-72.
11. Kar S., Naik D. R. Cytodifferentiation and immunocharacteristics of adenohypophysial cells in the toad,Bufo melanostictus. Anat. Embryol. 175:1986;137-145.
12. Kawamura K., Kikuyama S. Induction from posterior hypothalamus is essential for the development of the pituitary proopiomelanocortin (POMC) cells of the toad (Bufo japonicus. Cell Tissue Res. 279:1995;233-239.
13. Kikuyama S., Inaco H., Jenks B. G., Kawamura K. Development of ectopically transplanted primordium of epithelial hypophysis inBufo japonicus. J. Exp. Zool. 266:1993;216-220.
14. Meites J., Nicoll C. S., Talwalkar P. K. The central nervous system and the secretion and release of prolactin. Advances in Neuroendocrinology. 1963;Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana. p. 238-288.
15. Mikami S., Yamada S. Immunohistochemistry of the hypothalamic neuropeptides and anterior pituitary cells in the Japanese quail. J. Exp. Zool. 232:1984;405-417.
16. D. R. Naik, 1978, The nature of hypothalamic influences on prolactin secretion in the yellow monitorVaranus flavescensBufo melanostictus, Proceedings, 3rd All India Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology, Bhubaneswar, 18.
17. Nemeskéri A., Sétáló G., Kacsóh B., Halász B. Fetal pituitary graft is capable of initiating hormone synthesis in median eminence removed adult rat. Endocrinol. Exp. 24:1990;283-292.
18. Nikitovitch-Winer M. B., Everett J. W. Histological changes in grafts of rat pituitary on the kidney and upon re-transplantation under the diencephalon. Endocrinology. 65:1959;357-368.
19. Sanders A. E., Rennels E. G. Evidence on the cellular source of luteotrophin derived from a study of rat pituitary autografts. Z. Zellforsch. 49:1959;263-274.
20. Siperstein E. R., Greer M. A. Observations on the morphology and histochemistry of the mouse pituitary implanted in the anterior eye chamber. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 17:1956;569-600.
21. Sternberger L. A., Hardy P. H. Jr., Cuculis J. J., Meyer H. G. The unlabelled antibody enzyme method of immunochemistry: Preparation and properties of soluble antigen antibody complex (horseradish peroxidase-antiperoxidase) and its use in identification of spirochetes. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 18:1970;315-333.
22. Virágh S., Tiboldi T., Kovács K., Julesz M., Törö I. Electron microscopic structure of anterior pituitaries transplanted into anterior chamber of the eye in rats. Acta. Biol. Hung. 18:1967;77-89.
23. Vuillez P., Moos F., Stoeckel M. E. Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural studies on allografts of the pituitary neurointermediate lobe in the third cerebral ventricle of the rat. Cell Tissue Res. 255:1989;393-404.
24. Zehr D. R. Use of hydrogen peroxide-egg albumin to eliminate non-specific staining in immunoperoxidase techniques. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 26:1978;415-416.