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  2. Prolactin - Wikipedia

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    Prolactin (PRL), also known as lactotropin and mammotropin, is a protein best known for its role in enabling mammals to produce milk. It is influential in over 300 separate processes in various vertebrates, including humans. [5] Prolactin is secreted from the pituitary gland in response to eating, mating, estrogen treatment, ovulation and ...

  3. Hyperprolactinaemia - Wikipedia

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    Hyperprolactinemia, characterized by abnormally high levels of prolactin, may cause galactorrhea (production and spontaneous flow of breast milk), infertility, and menstrual disruptions in women. In men, it can lead to hypogonadism, infertility and erectile dysfunction. Prolactin is crucial for milk production during pregnancy and lactation.

  4. Is Cabergoline Actually Good for Men's "Intimate" Health?

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    In men, high levels of prolactin can result in a number of intimate problems, including: (ED) Reduced libido. Decreased fertility. Cabergoline is a dopamine agonist. It works to reduce the amount ...

  5. Refractory period (sex) - Wikipedia

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    In addition, both men and women experience increased prolactin levels following orgasm for approximately 60 minutes, which is a neurobiological marker of the refractory period in males. [ 14 ] [ 9 ] Like men, it may be that only a minority of women are capable of multiple orgasms or lack a refractory period, but there is insufficient data to ...

  6. At What Age Do Men Stop Being Intimately Active? - AOL

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    Libido tends to decrease with age in men and women. Part of this is due to natural changes in your production of testosterone that occur as you get old, but there are a few other key factors that ...

  7. Hypoprolactinemia - Wikipedia

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    Hypoprolactinemia can result from autoimmune disease, [2] hypopituitarism, [1] growth hormone deficiency, [2] hypothyroidism, [2] excessive dopamine action in the tuberoinfundibular pathway and/or the anterior pituitary, and ingestion of drugs that activate the D 2 receptor, such as direct D 2 receptor agonists like bromocriptine and pergolide, and indirect D 2 receptor activators like ...

  8. Prolactin cell - Wikipedia

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    A prolactin cell (also known as a lactotropic cell, epsilon acidophil, lactotrope, lactotroph, mammatroph, mammotroph) is a cell in the anterior pituitary which produces prolactin (a peptide hormone) in response to hormonal signals including dopamine (which is inhibitory), thyrotropin-releasing hormone and estrogen (especially during pregnancy), which are stimulatory.

  9. Endocrinology of parenting - Wikipedia

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    One study demonstrated that a deficiency in prolactin during the postnatal period in rats has the potential to affect their maternal behavior. [57] In this study bromocriptine-treated juvenile rats exhibited hyperactivity and distractibility from the pups during the maternal behavior test suggesting the importance of prolactin to promote ...