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Prolactin (PRL), also
known as
lactotropin and mammotropin, is a
protein best
known for its role in
enabling mammals to
produce milk. It is influential...
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levels of
prolactin in the blood.
Normal levels average to
about 13 ng/mL in women, and 5 ng/mL in men, with an
upper normal limit of
serum prolactin levels...
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supplies the
pituitary gland. The
prolactin cells that
produce prolactin, in the
absence of dopamine,
secrete prolactin continuously;
dopamine inhibits...
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hormone prolactin from the
anterior pituitary gland.
Prolactin inhibitors suppress and
prolactin releasers induce the
secretion of
prolactin, respectively...
- The
prolactin receptor (PRLR) is a type I
cytokine receptor encoded in
humans by the PRLR gene on
chromosome 5p13-14. It is the
receptor for
prolactin (PRL)...
- like
gastroparesis (dela****
gastric emptying). It
raises the
level of
prolactin in the
human body and is used off
label to
induce and
promote breast milk...
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hormone prolactin. It is the most
common type of
functioning pituitary tumor.
Symptoms of
prolactinoma are due to
abnormally high
levels of
prolactin in the...
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Prolactin-releasing hormone, also
known as PRLH, is a
hypothetical human hormone or
hormone releasing factor.
Existence of this
factor has been hypothesized...
- as
prolactin cell,
epsilon acidophil, lactotrope, lactotroph, mammatroph, mammotroph) is a cell in the
anterior pituitary which produces prolactin in...
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potent agonist of the
prolactin receptor and a weak
agonist of the
growth hormone receptor. hPL has been
found to bind to the
prolactin receptor with equal...
