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• n  gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition

• Prolactin caused chickless hens and virgin rats to mother chicks and ratlets with great affection.
• Clinicians have given prolactin to human mothers to stimulate milk production.
• From this gland seeps the powerful "mother-love hormone," prolactin, which stimulates milk secretion after childbirth.

• lactogenic hormone
• luteotropin

News & Articles

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• Prolactin reduces arthritis inflammation
  ( Journal of Clinical Investigation ) In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Carmen Clapp and colleagues at the National University of Mexico identify prolactin as a potential treatment for inflammatory joint disease.
  Aug. 1, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• JCI early table of contents for Aug. 1, 2013
  This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, Aug. 1, 2013, in the JCI: Prolactin reduces arthritis inflammation; Identification of a molecule linking bone loss and bone formation; and defense against bacterial infection in chronic granulomatous disease.
  Aug. 1, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Daniel Levitin in Boston Globe (registration)
  You get the comfort hormone of prolactin when you hear sad music,says Levitin. "That's the same hormone that's released when mothers nurse their babies. It's soothing. And sometimes it's lyrics and sometimes it's music. I think it's most...
• Alan Moore in pharmabiz.com
  Dr Alan Moore, president and CEO, said, "This patent bolsters our intellectual property position around the use of prolactin for treating demyelinating neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) in which the myelin sheath surrounding...