Bile, Prolactin, and the Maternal Pheromone
SciencePublished 1 April 1977
Howard Moltz, Lois C. Leidahl
Citations27
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Data suggest a sex difference in the way prolactin alters the composition of bile so that the female can emit the maternal pheromone while the male normally cannot.
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When bile from females that had been lactating for 21 days was injected into the cecum of male rats it induced release of a maternal pheromone. Males injected with bile drawn from females in which prolactin had been inhibited, or from females that had been lactating for only 5 days, did not emit the pheromone. These data suggest a sex difference in the way prolactin alters the composition of bile so that the female can emit the maternal pheromone while the male normally cannot.
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