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Anterior Pituitary

ENDOCRINE PHYSIOLOGY

endocrine glands. The hormones secreted by the endocrine glands teed back on both the cells of the anterior pituitary and the hypothai-amus to regulate the secretion of tropie hormones and releasmg hc* mones.

Figurę 8.4 Overview of Anterior Pituitary Function

Hvpothalamic neuroendocrinc cells release hormones into the hypo-thalamic-hypophyseal portal system that stimulate or inhibit the sccretory cells ot the anterior pituitary. Under the contro! of these hypothalamic releasing and inhibiting hormones, the cells of the anterior pituitary release tropie hormones, which then act on

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