University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers have identified a potential way to reduce female post-operative pain by inhibiting pituitary prolactin generated by pre-operative stress. Prolactin, ...

Prolactin family hormones include growth hormone, placental lactogen and prolactin, which are able to regulate angiogenesis via NO and prostaglandins. However, their effects on vascular tone are not ...

Prolactin has an important function in the liver, but how important? Researchers, using an animal model, found that animals with extra prolactin had larger livers, regenerated their livers faster ...

If women had no prolactin receptors on cells in their mammary glands, they would not produce milk when they were nursing. Prolactin receptors are also found in other organs including the lung and the ...

Prolactin is a hormone we often associate with women, as it plays a key role in milk production. However, it’s just as important for men’s health, influencing everything from fertility to sexual drive ...

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers identified a potential way to reduce female post-operative pain by inhibiting pituitary prolactin generated by pre-operative stress. The paper, ...

It supports milk production and stimulates caregiving behavior in mothers. Now a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study has found prolactin also regulates body temperature during pregnancy.

The hormone prolactin has long been understood to play a vital role in breast growth and development and the production of milk during pregnancy. But a pair of recent studies conducted at VCU Massey ...

Toppling a widespread assumption that a "lactation" hormone only cues animals to produce food for their babies, Cornell researchers have shown the hormone also prompts zebra finches to be good parents ...