Prolactin in the Postpartum Rat: Synthesis and Release in the Absence of Suckling Stimulation
- 7 March 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 163 (3871) , 1083-1084
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.163.3871.1083
Abstract
Postpartum female rats deprived of suckling stimulation while being kept continuously with pups nonetheless suspended ovarian cyclicity for an average of 16 days and responded to uterine trauma by forming deciduomata. These results show that the extramammary stimulation afforded by young is alone capable of sustaining prolactin output from the adenohypophysis of the postpartum rat.Keywords
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