HERRING BODIES or NEUROSECRETORY BODIES:-

HERRING BODIES or NEUROSECRETORY BODIES:-

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✅ These are structures found in posterior pituitary.

✅They represent the terminal end of axons from hypothalamus.

✅ Hormones are temporarily stored in this structures.

✅They are neurosecretory terminals.

✅Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and oxytocin are both stored in Herring bodies but are not stored simultaneously in the same Herring body.

✅ Each Herring Body also contains ATP and a neurophysin.