Title : Measuring stress responses in postpartum mothers: perspectives from studies in human and animal populations.

Pub. Date : 2005 Mar

PMID : 16019595






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1 Several contributing factors have been proposed for this phenomenon in lactation, including the suckling stimulus from the pups, hormones (oxytocin and prolactin) and opioids, a decrease in the ability of noradrenaline to potentiate hypothalamic responses and changes in pituitary responsiveness to ACTH secretagogues (AVP and CRF). Norepinephrine proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens