The Posterior Lobe of the Pituitary Gland Contains the Axons

question 78

True/False

The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland contains the axons and axon terminals of roughly 50,000 hypothalamic neurons whose cell bodies are either in the supra-optic or paraventricular nuclei.

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