| neurosecretory | Relating to neurosecretion. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| neurosecretory cell | Cells that have properties both of electrical activity, carrying impulses and a secretory function, releasing hormones into the bloodstream. In a sense, they are behaving in the same way as any chemically signalling neuron, except that the target is the blood (and remote tissues), not another nerve or post synaptic region. (18 Nov 1997) |
| neurosecretory cells | Nerve cell's, such as those of the hypothalamus, that elaborate a chemical substance (such as a releasing factor, neuropeptide, or, more rarely, a true hormone) that influences the activity of another structure (e.g., anterior lobe of the hypophysis). See also neurosecretion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neurosecretory substance | The secretion of nerve cell bodies located in the hypothalamus; the substance is transported by way of hypothalamo-hypophysial tract fibres into the neurohypophysis where the terminals of the nerve fibres contain the secretion. As seen in the fibres and terminals with a light microscope, the substance appears as Herring bodies or hyaline bodies of the pituitary (see under body). See: hyaline bodies of pituitary. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neurosecretory systems | A system of neurons that has the specialised function to produce and secrete hormones, and that constitutes, in whole or in part, an endocrine organ or system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| caudal neurosecretory system | urohypophysis |
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