Herring body
Herring bodies are swellings containing neurosecretion at the distal neuron ends of the hypothalamus . These structures can be found in the neurohypophysis and ensure a temporary storage of neurohypophyseal hormones .
Both the carrier protein neurophysin and the hormones antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin are stored here. However, only one of the two substances can be found in a single Herring body.
The anatomical structure was first described by the physicist and physiologist Percy Theodore Herring in 1908.
swell
- ^ University of Mainz: Hypophysis cerebri = hypophysis (pituitary gland) , accessed on June 16, 2008
- ^ University of Kansas: Posterior Pituitary , accessed June 16, 2008
literature
- HD Dellmann et al .: Herring bodies reexamined: an ultrastructural experimental investigation of the rat neural lobe. In: Zentralblatt für Veterinärmedizin, Series C : Anatomie, Histologie, Embryologie, 3/1974, pp. 101–110. PMID 4368770
- R. Vazquez, P. Amat: The infrastructure of the Herring bodies in rats subjected to different experimental conditions. In: Cell and Tissue Research 189/1978, pp. 41-51. PMID 667909