Venous outflow of the hormones secreted by the rat pituitary autotransplanted beneath the kidney capsule.

In adult female or male rats subjected to hypophysectomy and autotransplantation of the pituitary beneath the renal capsule, the levels of prolactin in the renal vein of the pituitary-bearing kidney were not significantly different from those found either in the renal vein of the contralateral kidney or in the jugular veing. LH levels were slightly but highly significantly higher than those found in hypophysectomized rats; the levels found in the two renal veins and the jugular vein were also not sigificantly different from one another.