Sentences with phrase «median eminence»

Peterson ME, Palkovits M, Chieuh CC, Graves TK, Mezey E, Vale W, Kreiger DT: Biogenic amine and corticotropin - releasing hormone concentrations in hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei and biogenic amine levels in the median eminence of normal dogs, chronic dexamethasone - treated dogs, and dogs with naturally - occurring hyperadrenocorticism (canine Cushing's syndrome).

The median eminence of the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that gives the initial order to create testosterone, is totally naked and exposed — it has to be because it needs to secrete and receive feedback from hormones.

Intraperitoneal administration of insulin to control rats and to rats with pituitary stalk transections or with lesions of the median eminence resulted in increased plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) levels.