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SINCE the discovery in the 1930's of the pituitary portal system in man, a similar system has been described in a large number of vertebrates, from amphibians to mammals1. Green did not notice a portal system in fishes, but suggests that the large sinusoids lying between the neurohypophysis and pars intermedia might serve a similar function, namely, a neurovascular contact involved in the control of the adenohypophysis.
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MEURLING, P. Presence of a Pituitary Portal System in Elasmobranchs. Nature 187, 336–337 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187336a0
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