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  2. Hypophyseal portal system - Wikipedia

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    The hypophyseal portal system is a system of blood vessels in the microcirculation at the base of the brain, connecting the hypothalamus with the anterior pituitary.Its main function is to quickly transport and exchange hormones between the hypothalamus arcuate nucleus and anterior pituitary gland.

  3. Portal venous system - Wikipedia

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    The hypophyseal portal system transports hormones from the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland. In the renal portal system adrenal medulla capillaries are downstream from adrenal cortex capillaries. This portal system delivers high concentrations of adrenal cortical hormones to the adrenal medulla.

  4. Paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus - Wikipedia

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    The axons of the parvocellular neurosecretory neurons of the PVN project to the median eminence, a neurohemal organ at the base of the brain, where their neurosecretory nerve terminals release their hormones at the primary capillary plexus of the hypophyseal portal system. The median eminence contains fiber terminals from many hypothalamic ...

  5. Median eminence - Wikipedia

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    The median eminence is generally defined as the portion of the ventral hypothalamus from which the portal vessels arise. [1] The median eminence is a small swelling on the tuber cinereum, posterior to and on top of the pituitary stalk; it lies in the area roughly bounded on its posterolateral region by the cerebral peduncles, and on its anterolateral region by the optic chiasm.

  6. Posterior pituitary - Wikipedia

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    The hypothalamic–neurohypophyseal system is composed of ... oxytocin and vasopressin into the neurohypophyseal capillaries, ... into the hypophyseal portal system).

  7. Pituitary gland - Wikipedia

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    Endocrine cells of the anterior pituitary are controlled by regulatory hormones released by parvocellular neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamic capillaries leading to infundibular blood vessels, which in turn lead to a second capillary bed in the anterior pituitary. This vascular relationship constitutes the hypophyseal portal system.

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.

  9. Tuberoinfundibular pathway - Wikipedia

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    Tuberoinfundibular pathway shown in opaque blue, connecting that hypothalamus with the pituitary gland. The tuberoinfundibular pathway refers to a population of dopamine neurons that project from the arcuate nucleus (a.k.a. the "infundibular nucleus") in the tuberal region of the hypothalamus to the median eminence. [1]