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Biol Bull 73: 134-142. (August 1937)
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THE RÔLE OF THE HYPOPHYSEAL MELANOPHORE HORMONE IN THE CHROMATIC PHYSIOLOGY OF FUNDULUS

A. A. ABRAMOWITZ 1

1 From the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., and the Biological Laboratories, Harvard University

1. After hypophysectomy in Fundulus, denervated melanophores cannot exhibit the normal black-background response. Normally innervated melanophores are only slightly affected.

2. The inability of the denervated melanophores in hypophysectomized animals to expand completely is due to the absence of the hypophyseal melanophore hormone from the blood.

3. There is sufficient melanophore hormone in the pituitary and in the circulating blood of Fundulus to establish it as a significant agency in the melanophore responses of this teleost.






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