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Regulation of Lactotrophs and Prolactin Secretion in Non-mammalian Vertebrates

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Prolactin

Part of the book series: Endocrine Updates ((ENDO,volume 12))

Abstract

Prolactin (PRL) is a pleiotropic hormone with numerous functions ascribed to it in various species (1). Best known to mammalian researchers is the role of PRL in regulating mammary function and milk production. While PRL serves to regulate maternal functions such as incubation behavior and crop “milk” production in birds, this hormone serves to regulate water and electrolyte balance, the behavioral drive toward water and morphogenesis in other vertebrates. From this diverse set of actions for PRL among vertebrates, it follows that the ontogeny, distribution and regulation of PRL-secreting cells, the lactotrophs, may also vary widely among vertebrate classes. This chapter will summarize the localization of PRL cells within the anterior pituitary, changes in lactotroph abundance during transitions in physiologic state, and the regulation of PRL release in non-mammalian vertebrates. Rather than catalogue research conducted in all vertebrate species, the aim of this chapter is to highlight differences between mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrate classes.

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