The pea-sized pituitary gland is composed of both anterior and posterior lobes; in adults, the vertical diameter is approximately 8mm, with the horizontal circumference found to be 12 millimeters ...

(3) After all of the AVP stored in the posterior pituitary gland has been released, a third phase of diabetes insipidus develops if >80-90% of the AVP-secreting neuronal cell bodies in the ...

The pituitary gland is often subdivided into the posterior and anterior pituitary glands. The posterior pituitary gland, which extends from axonal projections originating from the hypothalamus ...

IT seems to be generally accepted that, in addition to its antidiuretic effect, posterior pituitary extract has a chloruretic action. All workers appear to have found an increase of chloride ...