Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | black | font | document OCR: othalar ituitary-regulatory substances of the hy nes by a are synthesised within specialised neuro neral process known as neurosecretion. The g concept of neurosecretion underlies our al understanding of the way in which neur nessages, information is converted into chemical rand The notion was first proposed by Scharre hat certain colleagues in the 1930s; they recognised 1, and in nerve cells in the brain of insects and fis the neurohypophysial system of mamm resembled gland cells. were Scharrer suggested that some nerve cells ecretion capable of acting like glands of internal s on to and so introduced the term neurosecreti describe this phenomenon.