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Prolactin

Known as: LTH, Pituitary Lactogenic Hormone, Prolactin [Chemical/Ingredient] 
A lactogenic hormone secreted by the adenohypophysis (PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR). It is a polypeptide of approximately 23 kD. Besides its major… 
National Institutes of Health

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BreastCell secretionHuman Placental LactogenHyperprolactinemia

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Dtprp protein, ratfluorescein-5-isothiocyanate-prolactinmethionylprolactinpreprolactin

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GonadotropinsHormonesPituitary GonadotropinsPituitary Hormones, Anterior

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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Reliability of a lifetime history of major depression: implications for heritability and co-morbidity
Background. In unselected samples, the diagnosis of major depression (MD) is not highly reliable. It is not known if occasion… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Ha-ras and c-myc oncogene expression interferes with morphological and functional differentiation of mammary epithelial cells in single and double transgenic mice.
We studied the effects of the tissue-specific and lactogenic hormone-dependent expression of the recombinant whey acidic protein… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Structural features of prolactins and growth hormones that can be related to their biological properties.
IN THIS review we have compared the amino acid sequences of the GHs of eight mammalian species and the domestic chicken with the… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Two forms of rat placental lactogen revealed by radioimmunoassay.
A radioimmunoassay (RIA) has been developed to the species of lactogenic hormone (rPL) present in late pregnant rat placenta… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Studies on pituitary lactogenic hormone. XXX. The primary structure of the sheep hormone.
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
The corpus luteum-pituitary relationship: the association between the cause of luteotrophin secretion and the cause of follicular quiescence during lactation; the basis for a tentative theory of the…
The regulation of pituitary luteotrophin (LTH) secretion was studied by in-vestigating a) the association between LTH secretion… 
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
Induction of behavioral and electroencephalographic changes in the rabbit by hormone administration or brain stimulation.
The EEG after-reaction which ordinarily follows coitus in the female rabbit can be induced by “inhibitory-type” low frequency (5… 
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
The effects of fasting and of growth hormone administration on plasma fatty acid concentration in normal and hypophysectomized rhesus monkeys.
The effects of growth hormone and of fasting on the concentration of plasma nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) in hypophysectomized… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Hormones of the anterior pituitary gland. I. Growth and adrenocorticotropic hormones.
Review
1955
Review
1955
Rat placental hormonal activities corresponding to those of pituitary mammotropin.
MANY earlier reports, now too numerous to list in any but a review paper, have emphasized the importance of the placenta as an… 
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