Lack of stimulating effect of hypertonic Nacl intravenous injection on the release of melanocyte-stimulating hormone from the hypothalamic end of the cut pituitary stalk.
After removal of the whole pituitary gland in the rat, intravenous injection of 5% NaCl solution (0.5% of body weight) had no effect on MSH release from the washed hypothalamic end of the cut pituitary stalk and the ventral surface of the median eminence.
D000818:Animals; D006982:Hypertonic Solutions; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000378:metabolism; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D009074:Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones / Q000378:metabolism*; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*
D006982:Hypertonic Solutions; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D009074:Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones