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Plasma prolactin concentrations during lactation, pouch young development and the return to behavioural oestrus in captive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Overview of attention for article published in Reproduction, Fertility, & Development, May 2015
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Title
Plasma prolactin concentrations during lactation, pouch young development and the return to behavioural oestrus in captive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)
Published in
Reproduction, Fertility, & Development, May 2015
DOI 10.1071/rd14384
Pubmed ID
Authors

K. Ballantyne, S. T. Anderson, A. Mucci, V. Nicolson, S. D. Johnston

Abstract

Plasma prolactin (PRL) concentrations in captive koalas during lactation were determined by serial blood sampling. PRL concentrations were low (1.3 ± 0.1 ng mL-1; n = 5) during early lactation until pouch young (PY) began to emerge from the pouch (around Day 130) before significantly (P < 0.05) increasing between Day 161 and Day 175 (5.3 ± 1.0 ng mL-1). A significant (P < 0.001) peak in PRL (7.7 ± 0.6 ng mL-1) coincided with maturing young between Day 189 and Day 231. All females failed to exhibit any signs of oestrous behaviour until Day 268.8 ± 8.5 (n = 4), some 102 ± 19 days before PY were weaned following achieving target weights of 2.5-2.7 kg. Throughout lactation, plasma LH concentrations were relatively high (range 4.9-8.7 ng mL-1) and LH responses to exogenous gonadotrophin-releasing hormone were observed in all koalas at all times during lactation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 20%
Librarian 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Lecturer 1 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Other 2 20%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 20%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 10%
Environmental Science 1 10%
Unknown 4 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2016.
All research outputs
#8,550,571
of 25,411,814 outputs
Outputs from Reproduction, Fertility, & Development
#248
of 1,179 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,543
of 279,518 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Reproduction, Fertility, & Development
#3
of 26 outputs
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