Ontogeny of prolactin secretion in the neonatal rat is regulated posttranscriptionally

L S Frawley1, H A Miller

  • 1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.

Endocrinology
|January 1, 1989
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