As mentioned above, the anterior lobe is the site of the majority of such activity and produces the following: In addition, the posterior pituitary lobe synthesizes a couple of other hormones ...

Capillaries within the infundibulum allow hormones released by the hypothalamus to circulate directly into the anterior pituitary gland and avoid systemic circulation. Whereas the posterior ...

(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 ...