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- A melanotroph (or melanotrope) is a cell in the pituitary gland that generates melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α‐MSH) from its precursor pro-opiomelanocortin...
- Anterior/Intermediate pituitary cells Lactotropes Anterior/Intermediate pituitary cells Melanotropes Anterior/Intermediate pituitary cells Somatotropes Anterior/Intermediate...
- is synthesized by: Corticotrope cells of the anterior pituitary gland Melanotrope cells of the intermediate lobe of the pituitary gland Neurons in the...
- also secreted into the circulation from pituitary corticotropes and melanotropes. α-neoendorphin is also expressed in POMC cells in the arcuate nucleus...
- pituitary and releasing them into the bloodstream. Melanotrophs (also, Melanotropes) are another type of chromophobe which secrete melanocyte-stimulating...
- antigonadotropic effect in humans.[citation needed] It may also influence the melanotropes and melanocytes located in the skin.[citation needed] Many body organs...
- glands Mediates ****ual gratification Melanocyte-stimulating hormone MSH Melanotropes in the Pars intermedia of the Anterior Pituitary Stimulates melanin synthesis...
- cells known as melanotropes within the pars intermedia, releasing dopamine which then binds to dopamine receptors on the melanotropes. Activation of these...