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The ultrastructural effect of oestradiol implants into the hypothalamus on the adenohypophysis of adult female rats was studied. The main results are the demonstration that mammotrophs or prolactin cells, and to a lesser extent somatotrophs, increased their secretory activity after bilateral implants into the median eminence and arcuate nuclei; in the periventricular area the reaction was weaker and in the anterior hypothalamus the response was negative. In animals with implants in the basal tuberal region, mammotrophs showed an asynchronous secretory activity. Mitosis has been found to occur in fully differentiated mammotrophs, a finding which can be correlated with the increased number of such cells after basal tuberal implants. The gonadotrophs appeared to be atrophied.