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Oxytocin is called the birth hormone because of its important role in childbirth and breastfeeding. It is released during labour, facilitating birth and it is also released on stimulation of the nipples, helping the release of breast milk.
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Which hormone is called birth hormone?
oxytocin
What hormone stimulates uterine contractions for the birth process?
Oxytocin
What triggers labor and milk release during birth?
Labor is triggered by the hormone called oxytocin and prostaglandin. release of milk is triggered by the hormone prolactin.
What is sometimes called the love hormone?
Oxytocin
What is the hormone that is secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates uterine contractions?
The hormone that stimulates contractions of the uterus in mammals is oxytocin. However, the story is probably rather more complex. In mice, for example, that had no cell membrane receptors for oxytocin, birth took place as usual. Oxytocin has a short peptide molecule consisting of just nine amino acids.
Which hormone literally means swift birth and initiates labor?
Oxytocin
The hormone oxytocin aids the birth process by stimulating?
To stimulate uterine contraction.
What stimulates the smooth muscle of the uterus?
Stimulation of the cervix is what triggers labor through a hormone called oxytocin.
What chemical is produced in a males brain that make them attracted to women?
This hormone is called oxytocin.
What hormones has more target cells in the body than any of the others Antidiuretic hormone corticotropin-releasing hormone growth hormone or oxytocin?
oxytocin
What hormones is regulated by a neuroendocrine reflex oxytocin cortisol antidiuretic hormone?
oxytocin
What is the hormone version of pitocin?
Oxytocin
