Pituitary gland, light micrograph

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Pituitary gland, light micrograph. The cells of the posterior lobe, the pituicytes, are stellate cells rich in cytoplasmic filaments. They are intermediate filaments that contain vimentin and acid fibrillar glial protein. This is the boundary between the intermediate lobe (top) and the posterior lobe (bottom) in a rabbit pituitary, with the pituicytes immunostained for vimentin.

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Keywords: -, biological, biology, gland, histological, histology, hypophysis, ihq, immunohistochemical, light, micrograph, microscope, microscopic, microscopy, neurohypophysis, pituicyte, pituitary, section, vimentin