The milk-ejecting response of lactating mouse mammary gland tissue to ovine pineal extracts indicated the presence of a neurohormone-like bioactivity in this tissue. After successive fractionation on gel permeation chromatography and reversed-phase liquid chromatography (HPLC) in conjunction with radioimmunoassays (RIA), it was demonstrated that the milk-ejection response to ovine pineal components with an Mr less than 1,000 corresponded to a biologically active peptide sequence that probably differs from that of arginine vasopressin, arginine vasotocin, and oxytocin and from peptides with a COOH-terminal Pro-Arg-Gly-amide ending. Gel permeation chromatography in formic acid appeared also to indicate the presence of a noncovalent interaction of the neurohormone-like bioactivity with proteins (Mr greater than 25,000) of the pineal.
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