Prolactin: The New Biology of an Old Hormone

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Prolactin (PRL) is a paradoxical hormone. Historically known as the pituitary hormone of lactation, it has had attributed to it more than 300 separate actions, which can be correlated to the quasi-ubiquitous distribution of its receptor. Meanwhile, PRL-related knockout models have mainly highlighted its irreplaceable role in functions of lactation and reproduction, which suggests that most of its other reported...

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