THE PITUITARY BODY 



THE MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF THE PITUITARY BODY 



Not a small part of the enormous literature dealing with 

 the pituitary body chiefly concerns the histology and cytol- 

 ogy of the various parts. References to much of the older liter- 



Pars glandularis 



Pars neurali 



Pars intermedia 



Fig. 5. — The cells of origin of the principal nerve fibers to the human posterior 

 lobe. From Greving, Klin. Woch., VII (1928), 734-37. Continuous line: verified 

 histologically; broken line: hypothetical. The diagram of the brain is from a frontal 



ature can be found in the paper of Trautmann (1909). The 

 reader is also referred to the articles of Kraus (1914, 1926), 

 Bailey (1921), and Benda (1932), as well as to other papers 

 cited in this chapter. 



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