Prolactin

Study reveals how the brain balances hormones and metabolism during lactation

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Nursing poses major metabolic demands on mothers, to which they respond by eating more and saving energy to sustain milk production. There are significant hormonal changes during lactation, but how they lead to metabolic adaptations in nursing mothers remained unclear. In this study, which appeared in Nature Metabolism, leading researchers at Baylor College of Medicine … Read more

Mediation by elevated prolactin in the relationship between childhood trauma and first-episode drug-naïve schizophrenia | BMC Psychiatry

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Marder SR, Cannon TD, Schizophrenia. Ropper AH, editors. N Engl J Med. 2019;381(18):1753–61. Venkatasubramanian G, Keshavan MS. Biomarkers in Psychiatry – A critique. Ann Neurosci. 2016;23(1):3–5. PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Marano RJ, Ben-Jonathan N, Minireview. Extrapituitary prolactin: an update on the distribution, regulation, and functions. Mol Endocrinol. 2014;28(5):622–33. Cabrera-Reyes EA, Limón-Morales O, Rivero-Segura NA, … Read more