What it does: Prolactin's primary role is to stimulate the growth and maturation of breast tissue in preparation for milk production. It helps create milk and release it during breastfeeding. Regular ...

It makes several different hormones, including one called prolactin. Prolactin affects the mammary glands and helps women make breast milk. Sometimes, a tumor grows on the pituitary gland and ...

Leaños-Miranda A and Cárdenas-Mondragón G (2006) Serum free prolactin concentrations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are associated with lupus activity. Rheumatology 45: 97–101 ...

In Gordon Grau’s lab at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kajimura studied survival and prolactin production in tilapia subjected to varying salt concentrations. Andre Seale, then a PhD student ...