“Human Prolactin: Some Historical Aspects and Contemporary Issues”

by Prof Peter Hwang

Professorial Fellow, Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

This presentation traced early controversies about the existence of prolactin in man, the story of its purification from human pituitary glands, and the development of a specific radioimmunoassay for measuring prolactin levels in human blood. In addition, selected clinical problems of hyperprolactinemia and prolactinomas encountered today were also discussed.