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  2. Prolactin - Wikipedia

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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 in over 300 separate processes in various vertebrates, including humans. [5] Prolactin is secreted from the pituitary gland in response to eating, mating, estrogen treatment, ovulation and ...

  3. Prolactin-releasing peptide - Wikipedia

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    Prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP) is a peptide hormone that in humans is encoded by the PRLH gene. [5] PrRP stimulates prolactin (PRL) release and regulates the expression of prolactin through binding to the prolactin-releasing peptide receptor (GPR10).

  4. Prolactin-releasing hormone - Wikipedia

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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 is the only currently known hormone for which almost exclusively negative regulating factors are known (such as dopamine, leukemia inhibitory factor, some prostaglandins) but few stimulating factor.

  5. List of human hormones - Wikipedia

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    Anti-Müllerian hormone (or Müllerian-inhibiting factor/hormone) AMH (or MIF or MIH) Peptide: testes: Sertoli cell: AMHR2: Inhibit release of prolactin and TRH from anterior pituitary: 13 Adiponectin: Acrp30 Peptide: adipose tissue: adiponectin receptors: regulating glucose levels: 14 Adrenocorticotropic hormone (or corticotropin) ACTH Peptide ...

  6. Prolactin cell - Wikipedia

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    A prolactin cell (also known as a lactotropic cell, epsilon acidophil, lactotrope, lactotroph, mammatroph, mammotroph) is a cell in the anterior pituitary which produces prolactin (a peptide hormone) in response to hormonal signals including dopamine (which is inhibitory), thyrotropin-releasing hormone and estrogen (especially during pregnancy), which are stimulatory.

  7. Vasoactive intestinal peptide - Wikipedia

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    The production and release of the neuropeptide VIP is centralized in the hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic regions of the brain and from there it is able to modulate the release of prolactin secretion. [24] Once secreted from the pituitary gland, prolactin can increase many behaviors such as parental care and aggression.

  8. Hypothalamic–pituitary hormone - Wikipedia

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    These hormones are prolactin, growth hormone, TSH, adrenocorticotropic hormone, FSH and LH. They are all released by anterior pituitary. Some have targets in glands and some with direct function. Anterior pituitary is an amalgam of hormone producing glandular cells. There are conditions related to the limbic system which regulate the hormone ...

  9. Breast development - Wikipedia

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    Estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin, as well as GH/IGF-1, produce their effects on breast development by modulating the local expression in breast tissue of an assortment of autocrine and paracrine growth factors, [25] [44] [62] [63] [64] including IGF-1, IGF-2, amphiregulin, [65] EGF, FGF, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), [66] tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), tumor necrosis factor β (TNF ...