Hypothesis: Smoking decreases breast feeding duration by suppressing prolactin secretion

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 582-586

  Bahadori, Babak ^a   Riediger, Natalie D ^b,c   Farrell, Sharla M ^b   Uitz, Elisabeth ^a   Moghadasian, Mohammed F ^b,c  

^a State Clinic St Poelten   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NALTREXONE; NICOTINE; PROLACTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CANCER RISK; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MATERNAL SMOKING; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SELF CONTROL; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UPREGULATION;

RODENTIA;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MILK, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NICOTINE; PROLACTIN; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883811780     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.07.007     Document Type: Article

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