The role of lactogenic hormones in maternal behavior in female rats

The Physiology of Reproduction

1988 • 3,218 citations

Induction of maternal behavior in virgin rats after intracerebroventricular administration of oxytocin

1979 • 818 citations

Oxytocin Induces Maternal Behavior in Virgin Female Rats

1982 • 755 citations

Nonhormonal Basis of Maternal Behavior in the Rat

1967 • 695 citations

A New Sensitive and Specific Bioassay for Lactogenic Hormones: Measurement of Prolactin and Growth Hormone in Human Serum*

1980 • 574 citations

A Quantitative Analysis of the Roles of Dosage, Sequence, and Duration of Estradiol and Progesterone Exposure in the Regulation of Maternal Behavior in the Rat^*

1984 • 457 citations

Serum Prolactin Levels in Rats During Different Reproductive States

1970 • 403 citations

Medial preoptic area and maternal behavior in the female rat.

1974 • 359 citations

Structural Features of Prolactins and Growth Hormones That Can Be Related to Their Biological Properties*

1986 • 350 citations

Central prolactin infusions stimulate maternal behavior in steroid-treated, nulliparous female rats.

1990 • 343 citations

Prolactin Stimulation of Maternal Behavior in Female Rats

1985 • 288 citations

A Receptor-Mediated Mechanism for the Transport of Prolactin from Blood to Cerebrospinal Fluid*

1987 • 247 citations

Vaginal Stimulation: An Important Determinant of Maternal Bonding in Sheep

1983 • 228 citations

CNS receptors: From molecular pharmacology to behavior

1983 • 218 citations

Termination at Midpregnancy of the Two Daily Surges of Plasma Prolactin Initiated by Mating in the Rat

1976 • 189 citations

Prolactin (PRL) Regulation of Maternal Behavior in Rats: Bromocriptine Treatment Delays and PRL Promotes the Rapid Onset of Behavior*

1990 • 188 citations

Oxytocin induction of short-latency maternal behavior in nulliparous, estrogen-primed female rats

1984 • 185 citations

Prolactin: Is it an essential hormone for maternal behavior in the mammal?

1971 • 178 citations

Mammalian parenting; biochemical, neurobiological and behavioral determinants

1991 • 178 citations

Estrogen-induced maternal behavior in hysterectomized-ovariectomized virgin rats

1975 • 177 citations

TWO FORMS OF RAT PLACENTAL LACTOGEN REVEALED BY RADIOIMMUNOASSAY

1981 • 143 citations

Prolactin Binding Sites in the Rat Brain

1978 • 138 citations

Hysterectomy-induced maternal behavior pregnancy in the rat.

1975 • 136 citations

Hormonal stimulation necessary for elicitation of maternal nest-building in the mouse (Mus musculus)

1969 • 127 citations

Effect of preoptic region implants of dilute estradiol on the maternal behavior of ovariectomized, nulliparous rats

1986 • 120 citations

Serum Levels of Prolactin, Luteinizing Hormone, and Follicle Stimulating Hormone During Pregnancy in the Rat1

1972 • 112 citations

A developmental study of maternal responsiveness in the rat

1974 • 95 citations

The molecular evolution of pituitary growth hormone prolactin and placental lactogen: A protein family showing variable rates of evolution

1981 • 84 citations

Enhancement of maternal behavior and nest building following systemic and diencephalic administration of prolactin and progesterone in the mouse.

1973 • 81 citations

The ability of oxytocin to induce short latency maternal behavior is dependent on peripheral anosmia.

1987 • 77 citations

Maternal Behavior Induced in Virgin Rats by Prolactin

1935 • 76 citations

Central mechanisms underlying the neural and neuroendocrine determinants of maternal behaviour

1988 • 75 citations

MATERNAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE RABBIT: ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF MATERNAL-NEST BUILDING

1963 • 67 citations

Progesterone inhibition of maternal behavior in the rat

1978 • 65 citations

The ability of oxytocin to induce short latency maternal behavior is dependent on peripheral anosmia.

1987 • 62 citations

The distribution of lactogen receptors in the mammalian hypothalamus: an in vitro autoradiographic analysis of the rabbit and rat

1990 • 60 citations

Localization of prolactin binding sites in ring dove brain by quantitative autoradiography

1989 • 45 citations

Effects of progesterone withdrawal and estrogen on maternal behavior in nulliparous rats

1981 • 43 citations

Failure to induce retrieving by sensitization or the injection of prolactin.

1962 • 41 citations

Domperidone induces a probenecid-sensitive rise in immunoreactive prolactin in cerebroventricular perfusates in female rats

1992 • 39 citations

Autoradiographic Identification of Prolactin Binding Sites in Rat Median Eminence

1989 • 38 citations

Effects of oestrogen and progesterone on nest building in the golden hamster

1969 • 36 citations

Influence of the blood concentration of prolactin on the length of the sensitive period for establishing maternal behavior in sheep at parturition

1980 • 35 citations

Hormonal and behavioral aspects of maternal care in the hamster: A review

1980 • 34 citations

Regional distribution and species variation of prolactin binding sites in the brain

1988 • 33 citations

Length of prolactin priming differentially affects maternal behavior in female rats

1986 • 32 citations

Prolactin modulation of the maternal-like behavior displayed by juvenile rats

1988 • 31 citations

Relationship between prolactin in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid of ovariectomized female rhesus monkeys

1982 • 30 citations

Ovarian Factors Inhibit and Fetal Factors Stimulate the Secretion of Rat Placental Lactogen*

1984 • 30 citations

Rat placental lactogen-I binds to the choroid plexus and hypothalamus of the pregnant rat

1993 • 27 citations

Failure of pituitary transplants to facilitate the onset of maternal behavior in ovariectomized virgin rats☆

1978 • 26 citations

Pituitary and Placentally Derived Hormones in Cerebrospinal Fluid during Normal Human Pregnancy*

1983 • 25 citations

Growth hormone is secreted by ectopic pituitary grafts and stimulates maternal behavior in rats

1988 • 22 citations

Immunoreactive Prolactin in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Estrogen‐Treated and Lactating Rats as Determined by Push‐pull Perfusion of the Lateral Ventricles

1989 • 11 citations

Histochemical demonstration of prolactin binding sites.

1989 • 10 citations

[Maternal behavior induced in adult castrated rats].

1966 • 6 citations