The ability to regulate salt and water balance is a significant challenge for animals living in freshwater habitats worldwide. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists studied ...
Evolution
Sep 30, 2022
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For the first time, MIT researchers have performed a large-scale, high-resolution study of the cells in breast milk, allowing them to track how these cells change over time in nursing mothers.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2022
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If you type into a search engine—"why do men have to wait before having sex again?"—the results will include many references to prolactin. This hormone is thought to be involved in hundreds of physiological processes ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2021
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Basing their research on an unexpected interspecies difference between rats and mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University have mapped a system in the brain that controls paternal behavior towards ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 7, 2020
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Toppling a widespread assumption that a "lactation" hormone only cues animals to produce food for their babies, Cornell researchers have shown the hormone also prompts zebra finches to be good parents.
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2018
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Research has discovered a role for prolactin, the hormone that stimulates milk production in nursing mothers, in the bond between parents.
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some animals produce more offspring than others do. Hormones like prolactin and corticosterone can exercise a crucial influence on the behaviour of birds in the breeding season and therefore on their reproductive ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2011
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