Effect of surgical sympathectomy on catecholamine concentrations in the posterior pituitary of the rat.
Approximately one-third of the norepinephrine in the posterior pituitary of the rat is contained in terminals of sympathetic nerves which originate in the superior cervical ganglia; the remaining norepinephrine and dopamine appear to be in nerves of central origin.
D000818:Animals; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000032:analysis*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000032:analysis; D010870:Pineal Gland / Q000032:analysis; D010904:Pituitary Gland, Posterior / Q000032:analysis*; D051381:Rats; D013562:Sympathectomy
D002395:Catecholamines; D004298:Dopamine; D009638:Norepinephrine