• "Sagittal section of a human pituitary, showing the relationship of its blood supply to the neurosecretory cells of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus. The neuron labeled N represent a neurosecretory cell releasing ADH (antidiuretic hormone) or oxytocin at its axon terminals into the capillaries giving rise to the venous drainage of the posterior lobe. "
  • http://bio.bio.rpi.edu/Parsons/Universal%20Files/Lectures/L28Endocr/28f3Lect.html
  • courtesy of Robert H. Parsons, used with permission