Question

why tropic is used in the end of hormones produced by pituatury gland ?

Answer 1

Prolactin is a hormone that stimulates milk production after childbirth. The four remaining hormones are tropic hormones, which means that they are hormones that have other endocrine glands as their target. The four tropic hormones of the anterior pituitary gland can be remembered with the acronym F-L-A-T.