Twenty-four hour patterns of prolactin secretion during lactation and the relationship to suckling and the resumption of fertility in breast-feeding women

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 950-955

  Tay, C C K ^a   Glasier, A F ^a,b   McNeilly, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infertility; Lactation; Prolactin release; Suckling

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; LACTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SUCKLING;

EID: 0029889827     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019330     Document Type: Article

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