Lactotroph count

1. Caloric restriction decreases lactotroph count (17% of control).

   “accompanied by a decrease in the number of lactotrophs (17% of the mean value of control diet mice)”

   Animalspituitary5 weeksfemalesn = 5

   Caloric restriction perturbs the pituitary-ovarian axis and inhibits mouse mammary tumor virus production in a high-spontaneous-mammary-tumor-incidence mouse strain (C3H/SHN)

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