The Central Nervous System and The Control of Pituitary Hormone Release in The Pig

Abstract

Domestic animals have been recognized as Nobel prize winning sources of biological material. For example, the ox served to identify oxytocin (du Vingneaud, Barlett and Johl, 1954), the sheep (Burgus et at , 1971) and the pig (Schally et al. , 1971) to characterize gonadotrophin releasing hormones. 'As yet physiologists, in particular neuro-endocrinologists, have only taken limited advantage of them experimentally. Since this symposium is devoted.to pig reproduction, we shall attempt to present what is