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The Mother Load of Lactation
Author(s) -
Barbara Woodside
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of neuroendocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1365-2826
pISSN - 0953-8194
DOI - 10.1111/jne.12234
Subject(s) - lactation , citation , psychology , computer science , library science , biology , pregnancy , genetics
Providing milk to support their growing young is a tremendous energetic drain on mammalian females. They meet this challenge by recruiting multiple hormone-dependent mechanisms both in peripheral tissue and in the brain that conserve nutrients for milk production and facilitate increases in food intake. In addition, the negative energy balance associated with milk delivery itself results in changes in central pathways controlling metabolism that drive increases in food intake.