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When the LTH has more impact over females? Why this hormone is named so?

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Luteotropic hormone (LTH) is also called · luteotropin or lactogenic hormone or prolactin or mammotropin. It is a protein hormone which stimulates milk secretion after the child birth in-females. High prolactin secretion during lactation suppresses LH secretion and ovulation since it induces the corpus luteum hence named as luteo tropic hormone.
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