The cytological appearance of the pars tuberalis both at the light-and the electron-microscopical levels is described. Two main types of cell, one, which is designated the tuberalis cell, having a rounded contour, pale cytoplasm with a few small secretory granules of about 100 nm in diameter, many polyribosomes and a relatively large ovoid nucleus; and the other, the interstitial cell, with long processes often encircling tuberalis cells, an irregular nucleus and cytoplasm with abundant microfilaments about 10 nm in diameter were seen. Beaded nerve fibres and neurosecretory material were demonstrated in the pars tuberalis with chrome alum\p=m-\haematoxylin, a finding confirmed at the electron-microscopical level where nerve fibres which appeared to be making contact with tuberalis cells and containing numerous microvesicles of about 50 nm in diameter were observed.
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