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Median eminence of hypothalamus

Known as: Eminentia medialis (Shantha), Medial Eminences, Medianas, Eminentia 
Raised area at the infundibular region of the HYPOTHALAMUS at the floor of the BRAIN, ventral to the THIRD VENTRICLE and adjacent to the ARCUATE… 
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Blood supply aspectsMedial eminence of fourth ventricleMicrobiologicalPituitary Gland, Posterior

Broader (3)

Hypothalamic structureLactotrophsPituitary Gland

Narrower (2)

anterior median eminenceposterior median eminence

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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Capsaicin depletes corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoreactive neurons in the rat spinal cord and medulla oblongata.
Treatment of newborn rats with capsaicin was shown to cause a disappearance of corticotropin-releasing factor immunoreactive… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Effect of dexamethasone on immunoreactive corticotropin-releasing factor in the rat median eminence and intermediate-posterior pituitary.
Immunoreactive ACTH (I-ACTH) concentrations in the anterior pituitary, intermediate-posterior pituitary (IP), and plasma and… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Vasopressin concentrations in hypophysial portal plasma: insignificant reduction following removal of the posterior pituitary gland.
This study was designed to determine the relative contribution of vasopressin-secreting nerve terminals in the median eminence… 
1978
1978
Studies on the site of action of vasopressin in inducing adrenocorticotropin secretion.
Hypophysectomized rats bearing three transplanted pituitaries under the kidney capsule responded to synthetic lysine vasopressin… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Effects of estradiol benzoate on catecholamine levels and turnover in discrete areas of the medium eminence and the limbic forebrain, and on serum luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone…
The effects of estradiol benzoate (E2B) on brain catecholamines (CA) and serum gonadotropins and prolactin were studied in the… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Diminishing corticotrope capacity to release ACTH during sustained stimulation: the twenty-four hours after bilateral adrenalectomy in the rat.
Pituitaries were collected from rats at various intervals up to 72 hr after adrenalectomy. Their capacity to secrete ACTH in… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Progesterone blockade of the ovulatory response to intrapituitary infusion of LH-RH in rabbits.
Ovulation was induced in estrous rabbits in response either to crude rabbit median eminence extract (MEE) or to 0.2 ng of a… 
1966
1966
Effect of median eminence implants of LH on pituitary LH of female rats.
The effect of implantation of LH into the median eminence (ME) area of mature intact female rats on pituitary and plasma LH was… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
A HIGHLY SENSITIVE TEST FOR LH-RELEASING ACTIVITY: THE OVARIECTOMIZED, ESTROGEN PROGESTERONE-BLOCKED RAT.
The LH-releasing effect of crude acidic extracts of rat stalk-median eminence tissue was evaluated in chronically ovariectomized… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Anterior pituitary necrosis; infarction of the pars distalis produced experimentally in the rat.
1. Infarction of the anterior lobe (pars distalis) of the pituitary gland was produced in rats by arresting the blood flow in the…