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Lactogenic Hormone

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lactogenic hormone [¦lak·tə¦jen·ik ′hȯr‚mōn]
(biochemistry)
prolactin
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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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.
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Markers in NAF and serum have been compared in the past, showing increases in both serum and breast fluid levels of lactogenic hormones in women with cystic breast disease (34).
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A new microbioassay for the measurement of lactogenic hormones in human serum.
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