Neuroendocrine


 * 1) pertaining to the anatomic and functional relationships between the nervous system and the endocrine apparatus
 * 2) descriptive of cells that release a hormone into the circulating blood in response to a neural stimulus, with such cells composing, e.g., peripheral endocrine glands (e.g., the insulin-secreting &#946;-cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas and the adrenaline-secreting chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla) or being neurons in the brain (e.g., the neurons of the supraoptic nucleus that release antidiuretic hormone from their axon terminals in the posterior lobe of the hypophysis)