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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 77, 523-527, Copyright © 1993 by Endocrine Society

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Adeno-pituitary hormones in human hypothalamic hypophysial blood

R Paradisi, G Frank, O Magrini, M Capelli, S Venturoli, E Porcu and C Flamigni
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, S. Orsola Hospital, University Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy.

An in vivo technique for collecting blood from the pituitary stalk using transphenoidal microsurgery has recently been developed in men with nonfunctioning pituitary disease. To determine the origin of this blood and the direction of the stream, we measured contemporaneously the levels of LH, FSH, PRL, GH, TSH, and ACTH in hypothalamic- hypophysial blood (HHB) and peripheral blood (PB). Eleven patients with nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas entered the study. The surgical procedure used for collecting HHB consisted of periodically aspirating small amounts of blood using a microsuction apparatus, just after tumor removal, kept in the postero-superior corner of the sella turcica at the junction of the diaphragm with the dursum sellae. The data show clearly the existence of a dramatic concentration gap in HHB vs. PB in all adeno-pituitary hormones (P = 0.003). The HHB/PB ratio varied from 50-600 in the different hormones. The secretion of adeno-pituitary hormones in blood drawn at the pituitary stalk level in man was reported for the first time. The dramatic HHB/PB ratio of the hormone levels has been emphasized. The most likely explanation for the markedly elevated hormone concentration gradient between central and peripheral blood was sampling of peri- and/or suprapituitary blood. To consider the origin and direction of the HHB stream, two hypotheses have been further advanced: 1) a retrograde bloodflow from the pituitary, and 2) a central-hypothalamic secretion.


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