Human thymocytes express a prolactin-like messenger ribonucleic acid and synthesize bioactive prolactin-like proteins.

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Recent evidence has demonstrated an important immunoregulatory role for pituitary PRL. Moreover, PRLs have been identified as products of transformed human lymphocyte cell lines and normal murine lymphocytes, and implicated as regulators of their proliferative responses. However, PRL synthesis by normal human lymphocytes has not yet been reported. Here we demonstrate that human thymocytes and peripheral blood...

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