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Morphofunctional study of mammotropic cells following intraventricular administration of met-enkephalin

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An ultrastructural and morphometric study was carried out on the adenohypophyseal mammotropic cells of rats treated intraventricularly with an acute dose (150 μg) of Met-enkephalin. In the female rats, clear features of cellular hyperactivity appeared after opioid administration. The changes affected the Golgi complex, the rough endoplasmic reticulum, the mature and immature secretory granules and the images of exocytosis. Such changes did not appear when naloxone was administered before the opioid, and naloxone induced an increase in the numerical density of lysosomal dense bodies with lipoid inclusions. In the male animals, administration of an identical dose of Metenkephalin caused only a few significant changes, similar to those observed in the controls. It is concluded that Metenkephalin administered intraventricularly causes evident modifications in the mammotropic cells of female rats whereas such changes in the male animals are not significant.

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  1. Department of Morphological Sciences, Cellular Biology and Pathology, Human Anatomy, University of Salamanca, Spain

    J. Carretero, F. Sánchez, E. Blanco, J. M. Riesco & R. Vázquez

  2. Service of Endocrinology, Ramon y Cajal Hospital, E-28034, Madrid, Spain

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Carretero, J., Sánchez, F., Blanco, E. et al. Morphofunctional study of mammotropic cells following intraventricular administration of met-enkephalin. Anat Embryol 179, 243–250 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00326589

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