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  • Title: Retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase in the magnocellular neurosecretory system of the rat.
    Author: Sherlock DA, Field PM, Raisman G.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1975 May 09; 88(3):403-14. PubMed ID: 49208.
    Abstract:
    Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was injected into the pituitary in adult rats. After 2-3 days, the neurones of the supraoptic nuclei, the magnocellular parts of the paraventricular nuclei, and the various accessory neurosecretory hypothalamic nuclei showed accumulation of HRP. The HRP reaction product consisted of fine, discrete cytoplasmic granules, and in electron micrographys it was seen to be located in the lysosome-like dense bodies of 0.4-0.6 mum diameter which are normally present in the cytoplasm of the neurosecretory neuron.es. Very little reaction product was found in the neurosecretory axons. Reaction product was also found in the hypothalamic arcuate nuclei. This was the result of an endogenous peroxidase-like activity, since it occurred in control animals which had not received HRP. This endogenous reaction product is non-neuronal. Morphologically, it takes the form of distinctive clusters of coarse granules which are seen in electron micrographs to be characteristic angular bodies of 0.7-1.0 mum diameter located in the cytoplasm of astrocytes or their processes.
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