Pathways in the forebrain of the rat concerned with the release of prolactin.
Circulating prolactin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay after electrical stimulation of discrete sites in the forebrain of 420 lactating rats. The animals were prepared under initial anaesthesia, were decorticated except for frontal cortex and their brain stems were transected at the mid-collicular level.
D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000502:physiology; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000502:physiology; D007774:Lactation; D008326:Mammillary Bodies / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011301:Preoptic Area / Q000502:physiology; D011388:Prolactin / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D013788:Thalamus / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors
D011388:Prolactin