Central Lactogenic Regulation of Maternal Behavior in Rats: Steroid Dependence, Hormone Specificity, and Behavioral Potencies of Rat Prolactin and Rat Placental Lactogen I

A stereotaxic atlas of the rat brain

1980 • 2,782 citations

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

1979 • 818 citations

Nonhormonal Basis of Maternal Behavior in the Rat

1967 • 695 citations

Serum Prolactin Levels in Rats During Different Reproductive States

1970 • 403 citations

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

1990 • 343 citations

A Defect in Nurturing in Mice Lacking the Immediate Early Gene fosB

1996 • 340 citations

Possible Role for Endogenous Oxytocin in Estrogen-Facilitated Maternal Behavior in Rats

1985 • 321 citations

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

1987 • 247 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

Reversal of Morphine Disruption of Maternal Behavior by Concurrent Treatment with the Opiate Antagonist Naloxone

1982 • 170 citations

Biochemical Basis of Parental Behavior in the Rat

1996 • 124 citations

Endocrine regulation of parental behavior in rodents.

1990 • 114 citations

Distribution of Prolactin Receptors in the Rat Forebrain

1996 • 89 citations

Preferential expression of long form prolactin receptor mRNA in the rat brain during the oestrous cycle, pregnancy and lactation: hormones involved in its gene expression

1994 • 80 citations

Prolactin-brain interactions in the induction of maternal behavior in rats

1994 • 65 citations

Ovariectomy Leads to a Rapid Increase in Rat Placental Lactogen Secretion*

1984 • 54 citations

Human Placental Lactogen Infusions into the Medial Preoptic Area Stimulate Maternal Behavior in Steroid-Primed, Nulliparous Female Rats

1995 • 51 citations

Functional mapping of neural sites mediating prolactin-induced hyperphagia in doves

1993 • 44 citations

Length of prolactin priming differentially affects maternal behavior in female rats

1986 • 32 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

Expression, purification, and characterization of recombinant rat placental lactogen-I: a comparison with the native hormone

1994 • 13 citations