Lactotrope differentiation in rats is modulated by a milk-borne signal transferred to the neonatal circulation.

A tissue-specific transcription factor containing a homeodomain specifies a pituitary phenotype

1988 • 998 citations

Pituitary cell phenotypes involve cell-specific Pit-1 mRNA translation and synergistic interactions with other classes of transcription factors.

1990 • 636 citations

Transgenic mice with inducible dwarfism

1989 • 302 citations

A pituitary-specific trans-acting factor can stimulate transcription from the growth hormone promoter in extracts of nonexpressing cells

1987 • 301 citations

Expression of GHF-1 protein in mouse pituitaries correlates both temporally and spatially with the onset of growth hormone gene activity

1990 • 208 citations

Anterior pituitary development: Short tales from dwarf mice

1992 • 208 citations

Ontogenesis of cells producing polypeptide hormones (ACTH, MSH, LPH, GH, Prolactin) in the fetal hypophysis of the rat: Influence of the hypothalamus

1979 • 191 citations

Ontogeny of Prolactin Cells in Neonatal Rats: Initial Prolactin Secretors also Release Growth Hormone*

1985 • 179 citations

Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone in Milk

1977 • 129 citations

Periparturient Changes in Secretion and Mammary Uptake of Insulin and in Concentrations of Insulin and Insulin-Like Growth Factors in Milk of Dairy Cows

1987 • 123 citations

Functional differentiation of the fetal anterior pituitary cells in the rat.

1976 • 114 citations

Cellular proliferation in the anterior pituitary of the rat during the postnatal period

1990 • 113 citations

Maternal and neonatal somatomedin C/insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and IGF binding proteins during early lactation in the pig

1988 • 101 citations

Analysis by Plaque Assays of GH and Prolactin Release from Individual Cells in Cultures of Male Pituitaries

1986 • 99 citations

TRANSFER OF MILK PROLACTIN TO THE PLASMA OF NEONATAL RATS BY INTESTINAL ABSORPTION

1978 • 76 citations

Luteinizing Hormone‐Releasing Hormone and Thyrotropin‐Releasing Hormone in Human and Bovine Milk

1982 • 72 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factors I and II and Their Binding Proteins in Rat Milk

1991 • 68 citations

Parathyroid Hormone-Related Peptide in Lactation and in Umbilical Cord Blood

1990 • 68 citations

Levels of Immunoreactive Insulin, Neurotensin, and Bombesin in Porcine Colostrum and Milk

1987 • 65 citations

Functional Development of the Stomach

1985 • 63 citations

Transforming growth factor activity in human colostrum.

1984 • 54 citations

Maternal Modulation of Infantile Ovarian Development and Available Ovarian Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone (LHRH) Receptors via Milk LHRH^*

1984 • 54 citations

Functional Maturation of Somatotropes in Fetal Rat Pituitaries: Analysis by Reverse Hemolytic Plaque Assay*

1985 • 41 citations

Immunoreactive and biologically active somatostatin in human and sheep milk

1985 • 40 citations

Discrepancy between Prolactin (PRL) Messenger Ribonucleic Acid and PRL Content in Rat Fetal Pituitary Cells: Possible Role of Dopamine

1988 • 35 citations

Studies on the development of growth hormone and prolactin cells in the rat pituitary gland by in situ hybridization

1989 • 34 citations

Somatotrophs and lactotrophs in the anterior pituitary of fetal and neonatal rats

1986 • 29 citations

Accumulation of prolactin by maternal milk and its transfer to circulation of neonatal rat--a review.

1983 • 27 citations

Presence of Calcitonin-Like Peptide in Rat Milk: Possible Physiological Role in Regulation of Neonatal Prolactin Secretion*

1989 • 26 citations

Growth hormone releasing factor-like immunoreactivity in human milk

1986 • 24 citations

Mechanism of secretion of plasma insulin-like growth factor-I into milk of lactating goats

1991 • 23 citations

Ontogeny of Prolactin Secretion in the Neonatal Rat Is Regulated Posttranscriptionally*

1989 • 23 citations

Growth hormone releasing factor and somatostatin concentrations in the milk of lactating women

1988 • 22 citations

Normal Differentiation of Prolactin Cells in Neonatal Rats Requires a Maternal Signal Specific to Early Lactation*

1991 • 18 citations

Transport of <sup>3</sup>H-TRH from Plasma to Rat Milk: Accumulation and Slow Degradation in Milk and Presence of Unaltered Hormone in Gastric Content of Pups

1980 • 17 citations

Demonstration of transforming growth factor activity in mammary epithelial tissues.

1985 • 15 citations

Secretion of insulin-like growth factor II into milk

1992 • 13 citations

Development of Prolactin and Growth Hormone Production in the Fetal Rat Pituitary: An Immunochemical Study

1992 • 12 citations

Neuroendocrine peptides in milk

1991 • 10 citations