Abstract
Summary
Within the first 2 weeks following pituitarectomy in adult albino rats hemorrhagic changes are observed in the cortex of the suprarenal which precede the atrophy of the gland. The similarity to the changes observed soon after birth in humans is pointed out.
By inference this observation tends to strengthen the hypothesis that the severe hemorrhagic involutional changes noted in early extra-uterine life may be due to the withdrawal of the maternal adrenotropic hormone of the anterior lobe.
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