EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Prolactin is a polypeptide hormone that is responsible for lactation, breast development, and hundreds of other actions needed to maintain homeostasis. The chemical structures prolactin is similar to the structure of growth hormone and placental lactogen hormone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summary: Prolactin, a hormone responsible for milk production in mothers, reduces a mother’s investment in aggressive behaviors and helps to increase protective behaviors.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prolactin: This hormone stimulates breast milk production after giving birth and can affect menstrual periods, fertility and sexual function (by causing low testosterone in people assigned male at birth and low estrogen in people assigned female at birth).

Detailed explanation-4: -Progesterone plays important roles in regulating both the expression of maternal behavior as well as lactogenesis.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prolactin plays major roles in maintaining the corpora lutea of pregnancy and in the synthesis of milk during lactation. The hypothalamic mechanisms involved in these functions have been investigated. Mating leads to a surge of prolactin and programs daily surges during early pregnancy.