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comparison with pars intermedia

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    …is also found in the pars distalis of bony fishes. Here neurosecretory fibres arise from a localized region of the hypothalamus, called the nucleus lateralis tuberis, and end in contact either with the various types of secretory cells or with blood capillaries related to them. The other route of chemical…

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