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Cortisol levels are positively associated with pup-feeding rates in male meerkats [PDF]
, 1980 In societies of cooperative vertebrates, individual differences in contributions to offspring care are commonly substantial. Recent attempts to explain the causes of this variation have focused on correlations between contributions to care and the ...
Carlson, A.A. +6 more
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Prolactin and vitiligo: proposed autocrine/paracrine actions
Journal of the Egyptian Women’s Dermatologic Society, 2021 Background The exact cause of vitiligo remains unclear. Several theories have been proposed, including autoimmune and neuroendocrine theories. Prolactin has been studied as an immunomodulatory factor in several autoimmune diseases.
Ghada M El-Hanafy +3 more
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Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2021 Background Prolactin mirrors the dopaminergic activity in the brain which is key to understanding alcohol use disorders (AUD). Still, patients with AUD are a heterogenous group and there seem to be gender differences in the relationship between alcohol ...
Susmita Pandey +3 more
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Natural Killer cells responsiveness to physical esercise: a brief review [PDF]
, 2013 Natural killer cells (NK) are a group of peripheral blood lymphocytes which display cytotoxic ac- tivity against a wide range of tumour cells. They are a consistent part of the inflammatory re- sponse that is activated when either internal or external ...
Concu A. +4 more
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Cell Reports, 2019 Summary: Altered physiological states require neuronal adaptation. In late pregnancy and lactation, a sub-population of the mouse hypothalamic tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic (TIDA) neurons alters their behavior to synthesize and release met-enkephalin ...
Siew H. Yip +9 more
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Relationship between prolactin plasma levels and white matter volume in women with multiple sclerosis [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: The role of prolactin (PRL) on tissue injury and repair mechanisms in multiple sclerosis (MS) remains unclear. The aim of this work was to investigate the relationship between PRL plasma levels and brain damage as measured by magnetic ...
Barletta, VALERIA TERESA +10 more
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Effect of hyperthyroidism on circulating prolactin and hypothalamic expression of tyrosine hydroxylase, prolactin signaling cascade members and estrogen and progesterone receptors during late pregnancy and lactation in the rat [PDF]
, 2017 Hyperthyroidism (HyperT) compromises pregnancy and lactation, hindering suckling-induced PRL release. We studied the effect of HyperT on hypothalamic mRNA (RT-qPCR) and protein (Western blot) expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), PRL receptor (PRLR ...
Jahn, Graciela Alma +4 more
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Sex differences in the pituitary TGFβ1 system: the role of TGFβ1 in prolactinoma development [PDF]
, 2019 Prolactinomas are the most frequent functioning pituitary adenomas, and sex differences in tumor size, behavior and incidence have been described. These differences have been associated with earlier diagnosis in woman, as well as with serum estradiol ...
Abeledo Machado, Alejandra Inés +6 more
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Discriminating depression, physical and social anhedonia by neurotransmitter related challenge tests [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this study was to investigate, if anhedonia, a salient component of depression, shows similar response patterns to neurotransmitter challenge tests as depression, and if the two questionnaire based components Physical (PA) and Social (SA ...
Hennig, Juergen, Netter, Petra
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Endocrinology Research and Practice, 2022 Trauma of the head causes important changes in serum prolactin levels. Usually somatostatin has an inhibitory effect on the hormones. We do not know much about the effect of somatostatin on prolactin secretion.
Mithat Bahçeci +2 more
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