Hormonally active peptides in human milk

Epidermal Growth Factor

1979 • 2,964 citations

Studies of prolactin secretion in human pregnancy

1972 • 424 citations

Epidermal Growth Factor Is a Major Growth-Promoting Agent in Human Milk

1980 • 315 citations

A role for the beta-subunit in the expression of functional Na+-K+-ATPase in Xenopus oocytes

1989 • 228 citations

High levels of a parathyroid hormone-like protein in milk.

1989 • 214 citations

Epidermal Growth Factor (Urogastrone) in Human Fluids: Size Heterogeneity*

1979 • 183 citations

Selective Depression of Serum Growth Hormone During Maternal Deprivation in Rat Pups

1978 • 158 citations

Changes in the Growth-Promoting Activity of Human Milk during Lactation

1984 • 154 citations

Search for Role of Milk-Borne Biologically Active Peptides for the Suckling

1989 • 150 citations

Immunoreactive Somatomedin-C/Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Its Binding Protein in Human Milk*

1984 • 141 citations

Enhancement of intestinal growth in neonatal rats by epidermal growth factor in milk

1987 • 128 citations

Human and Bovine Milk Contain Different Sets of Growth Factors*

1984 • 118 citations

Transepithelial transport of epidermal growth factor by absorptive cells of suckling rat ileum.

1987 • 115 citations

Purification and partial sequence analysis of insulin-like growth factor-1 from bovine colostrum

1986 • 113 citations

Gastrointestinal absorption of epidermal growth factor in suckling rats

1984 • 112 citations

Onset of endogenous synthesis of epidermal growth factor in neonatal mice

1987 • 110 citations

Biologic effects of epidermal growth factor in human fetal jejunum

1988 • 107 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

Effect of urogastrone on gastric secretion and plasma gastrin levels in normal subjects.

1975 • 100 citations

Epidermal growth factor in human milk: Daily production and diurnal variation during early lactation in mothers delivering at term and at premature gestation

1983 • 92 citations

Uptake and transepithelial transport of nerve growth factor in suckling rat ileum.

1986 • 88 citations

Effects of enterally fed epidermal growth factor on the small and large intestine of the suckling rat

1987 • 85 citations

Maternal milk and plasma glucose and insulin levels: studies in normal and diabetic subjects.

1989 • 84 citations

Partial purification of transforming growth factors from human milk.

1986 • 84 citations

Passage of Insulin through the Wall of the Gastro-intestinal Tract of the Infant Rat

1959 • 78 citations

Epidermal growth factor-like proteins in breast fluid and human milk

1988 • 77 citations

Transforming growth factor (TGF) - α in human milk

1991 • 76 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

The Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Content in Human Milk Increases Between Early and Full Lactation*

1988 • 71 citations

Nonnutritive Sucking in Tube-Fed Preterm Infants

1988 • 65 citations

Radioautographic localization of epidermal growth factor receptors in human fetal gut

1991 • 62 citations

Development of Luminal Protein Digestion

1989 • 61 citations

Purification and Properties of Parathyroid Hormone- Related Peptide Isolated from Milk*

1990 • 59 citations

Minimal hydrolysis of epidermal growth factor by gastric fluid of preterm infants.

1989 • 58 citations

Immunoextracted calcitonin in milk and plasma from totally thyroidectomized women. Evidence of monomeric calcitonin in plasma during pregnancy and lactation

1986 • 58 citations

Identification and partial characterization of parathyroid hormone-related protein in human and bovine milk

1990 • 57 citations

Levels of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Full- and Preterm Human Milk in Comparison to Levels in Cow’s Milk and in Milk Formulas

1990 • 57 citations

Growth factor concentrations and growth-promoting activity in human milk following premature birth.

1985 • 56 citations

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

1984 • 54 citations

Isolation and characterization of epidermal growth factor from human milk

1985 • 54 citations

Transforming growth factor activity in human colostrum.

1984 • 54 citations

ELEVATED LEVELS OF LRH IN HUMAN MILK

1981 • 52 citations

Oral administration of epidermal growth factor in suckling rats stimulates cell DNA synthesis in fundic and antral gastric mucosae as well as in intestinal mucosa and pancreas

1988 • 51 citations

Bombesin, neurotensin and pro-γ-melanotropin immunoreactants in human milk

1985 • 51 citations

Prolactin in human milk: correlation with lactose, total protein, and alpha-lactalbumin levels

1980 • 51 citations

Studies on Prolactin in Human Serum, Urine and Milk

1975 • 50 citations

The relationship between the insulin content and inhibitory effects of bovine colostrum on protein breakdown in cultured cells

1982 • 48 citations

Milk insulin, GH and TSH: relationship to changes in milk lactose, glucose and protein during lactogenesis in women.

1983 • 46 citations

Protamine alters apical membrane K+ and Cl- permeability in gallbladder epithelium

1987 • 45 citations

Epidermal Growth Factor in Cow's Milk and Milk Formulas

1986 • 44 citations

Urogastrone and Lactose Concentrations in Precolostrum, Colostrum, and Milk

1983 • 43 citations

Luminal hydrolysis of recombinant human epidermal growth factor in the rat gastrointestinal tract: Segmental and developmental differences

1988 • 41 citations

Milk prolactin is biologically active

1980 • 41 citations

Isolation of colony stimulating factor from human milk

1983 • 40 citations

Immunoreactive and biologically active somatostatin in human and sheep milk

1985 • 40 citations

The identification and clinical implications of human breast milk mitogen

1979 • 39 citations

Presence and characteristics of epidermal growth factor receptors in human fetal small intestine and colon

1988 • 39 citations

Radioimmunoassay of human epidermal growth factor in human breast cyst fluid

1985 • 39 citations

Thyroid hormones and insulin in milk; a comparative study.

1986 • 38 citations

Mitogenic Activity and Epidermal Growth Factor Content in Human Milk

1985 • 37 citations

Effect of maturation on gastrointestinal absorption of epidermal growth factor in rats

1987 • 36 citations

Effects of oral administration of nerve growth factor and of its antiserum on sympathetic ganglia of neonatal mice

1982 • 36 citations

Postpartum changes in pattern of gastrointestinal regulatory peptides in human milk

1990 • 34 citations

Is Dietary Epidermal Growth Factor Absorbed by Premature Human Infants?

1989 • 33 citations

Bombesin ingestion stimulates epithelial digestive cell proliferation in suckling rats

1989 • 31 citations

Enhancement of Neonatal Somatic and Hepatic Growth by Orally Administered Epidermal Growth Factor in Rats

1988 • 30 citations

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and its low molecular weight binding protein in human milk

1989 • 29 citations

Oral Epidermal Growth Factor Is Trophic for the Stomach in the Neonatal Rat

1987 • 28 citations

Thyroidal response to peroral TSH in suckling and weaned rats

1980 • 27 citations

The Effects of Maternal Phlebotomy and Orally-Administered Erythropoietin (Ep) on Erythropoiesis in the Suckling Rat

1978 • 26 citations

Prolactin heterogeneity in the serum and milk during lactation

1977 • 26 citations

The presence of immunologically reactive insulin in milk of women, during the first week of lactation and its relation to changes in plasma insulin concentration.

1975 • 25 citations

Immunoreactive calcitonin in maternal milk and serum in relation to prolactin and neurotensin

1982 • 25 citations

Growth hormone releasing factor-like immunoreactivity in human milk

1986 • 24 citations

Thyrotropin in Human Breast Milk

1981 • 23 citations

Hormones in milk: their possible physiological significance for the neonate.

1989 • 22 citations

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

1988 • 22 citations

The Effect of Human Milk on DNA Synthesis of Neonatal Rat Hepatocytes in Primary Culture

1991 • 22 citations

Synergistic stimulation of Swiss mouse 3T3 fibroblasts by epidermal growth factor and other factors in human mammary secretions

1987 • 20 citations

Heterogeneity of immunoreactive calcitonin in human milk

1983 • 20 citations

Hypothalamic hormones in milk.

1991 • 20 citations

Calcitonin‐like immunoreactivity in human milk, longitudinal alterations and divalent cations

1984 • 18 citations

Effect of Short-Term Fasting/Refeeding on Epidermal Growth Factor Content in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Suckling Rats

1992 • 17 citations

Absorption of Orally Administered Bovine Prolactin by Neonatal Rats

1979 • 17 citations

Absorption of TSH and ACTH in biologically active form from the gastrointestinal tract of suckling rats.

1983 • 15 citations

Properties of synthetic-gene recombinant human epidermal growth factor: comparison with the natural growth factor from human urine and milk

1986 • 14 citations

Presence of Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins in Rat Milk

1991 • 13 citations

Evidence for precursors of calcitonin/PDN 21 in human milk

1987 • 13 citations

High concentration of a gastrin releasing peptide-like immunoreactive substance in pregnant human milk

1991 • 11 citations

Immunoreactive prolactin in breast milk and plasma of women with hyperprolactinemia, galactorrhea and menstrual dysfunction.

1986 • 11 citations

Effects of enterally- and parenterally-administered bombesin on intestinal luminal tryptic activity and protein in the suckling rat

1989 • 11 citations

Intestinal Absorption of Epidermal Growth Factor in Newborn Lambs

1987 • 10 citations

Prolactin concentration in milk and blood of patients with galactorrhoea

1983 • 9 citations

Promoting effect of bombesin on the cell proliferation in the rat endocrine pancreas during the early postnatal period

1990 • 9 citations

Increase of Serum Thyrotropin (TSH) of Suckling Rats after Thyroliberin (TRH) Injection to Lactating Mothers

1977 • 9 citations

Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-associated Peptide Immunoreactivity in Bovine Colostrum

1990 • 8 citations

Occurrence of high molecular weight EGF complexes in human milk.

1989 • 6 citations