Puerperal alactogenesis with normal prolactin dynamics: Is prolactin resistance the cause?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 598-600

  Zargar, Abdul Hamid ^a   Salahuddin, Mohammad ^a   Laway, Bashir Ahmad ^a   Masoodi, Shariq Rashid ^a   Ganie, Mohammad Ashraf ^a   Bhat, Mohammad Hayat ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Lactation failure; Prolactin resistance

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DISORDER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION DISORDERS; OBESITY; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN;

EID: 0033830139     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)00691-9     Document Type: Article

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