Endocrine Abstracts

The principal physiological effect of the anterior pituitary hormone prolactin is to stimulate milk production during lactation. However, recombinant mouse prolactin (PRL) has recently been shown to have an antidiuretic effect when the normal antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin, is either absent from the circulation or its secretion inhibited(1). The present study was designed to investigate whether this antidiuretic effect of prolactin was mediated by changes in the glomerular ...