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Prolactin hormone is the hormone responsible for lactation or milk production.
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What is a Prolactin Blood Test?
What is a Prolactin Blood Test?
What color test tube is used for prolactin?
yellow
What does medical code 84146 stand for?
Lab test for Prolactin
Abbreviation for prolactin?
PLH is the abbreviation for prolactin
Is prolactin a steroid or nonsteroid hormone?
Prolactin is a pituitary hormone and is a glycoprotein
What stimulus does prolactin secrete?
Prolactin PROmotes LACTation i.e. it makes breasts produce milk.
How can you use the word prolactin in a sentence?
The hormone prolactin is most noted for its regulation of milk production in female mammals. Men with decreased levels of prolactin can have lower sperm production.
Can you become pregnant if you have an elevated level of prolactin in your blood?
Can I become pregnant if I have an elevated level of prolactin in my blood?
What color tube is used for the prolactin test?
sst yellow cap tube or lithium heparin tube
What might abnormal prolactin levels show?
Increased prolactin levels are found in galactorrhea, amenorrhea, prolactin-secreting pituitary tumor, infiltrative diseases of the hypothalamus, and metastatic cancer of the pituitary gland.
Can you get your period with prolactin?
yes
Prolactin is an example of a?
Prolactin is an example of a hormone high level of which causes infertility in women.It regulates milk production
