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Lactogenic Hormone
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lactogenic hormone [¦lak·tə¦jen·ik ′hȯr‚mōn]
(biochemistry)

Lactogenic Hormone 

a hormone of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. It regulates the secretion of sex hormones by the ovaries, stimulates the formation of milk in mammary glands, and controls the maternal instinct.



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The growth hormone, prolactin, human chorionic and somatomammotropin are a group of homologous hormones with lactogenic activity and are growth-promoting.
Cell culture HC11 cell line was derived from midpregnant BALB/c mouse mammary tissue and is considered to retain important characteristics of normal mammary epithelial cells such as the ability to produce milk protein in response to lactogenic hormones without cultivation on exogenous extracellular matrix or cocultivation with adipocytes or fibroblasts (Marte et al.
The triad is known to promote growth and aid the lactogenic activity.
 
 
 
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