Prolactin is best known for its actions on the mammary gland. However, circulating prolactin is also detected in males and its receptor (PRLR) is expressed in the prostate, suggesting that the ...

Recently, researchers have found that prolactin is also produced by some tissues outside the brain, however little is known about the functions of extra-pituitary prolactin or how its production is ...

If women had no prolactin receptors on cells in their mammary glands, they would not produce milk when they were nursing. Prolactin receptors are also found in other organs including the lung and the ...

The hormone prolactin has long been understood to play a vital role in breast growth and development and the production of milk during pregnancy. But a pair of recent studies conducted at VCU Massey ...

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers identified a potential way to reduce female post-operative pain by inhibiting pituitary prolactin generated by pre-operative stress. The paper, ...

When should one consider a work-up for prolactinoma in the case of mild to moderate elevation of prolactin level, in a woman who is not pregnant, with no history of current or recent breast-feeding or ...

Frank Porreca, Ph.D., is the research director for the U of A Health Sciences Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction and the Cosden Professor of Pain and Addiction Studies at the College of ...