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What hormone influences the mammary glands?
oxytocin
Which structure prepares the mammary glands to secrete milk during the first three months of pregnancy?
The mammary glands do not secrete milk during the first three months of pregnancy. The mammary glands produce milk to feed the baby when the baby is born AFTER pregnancy.
Do mammal's have to secrete milk in order to be mammals?
Yes. One characteristic unique to mammals is mammary glands. They are glands that secrete milk.
Sweat glands and mammary glands are alike how?
Both sweat glands and mammary glands are types of exocrine glands that secrete substances through a duct to the surface of the skin. While sweat glands secrete sweat to regulate body temperature, mammary glands secrete milk to nourish offspring. Both types of glands are important for maintaining physiological functions in the body.
Glands that produce milk during lactation?
The milk producing glands of the breast are called mammary glands.
What hormone that stimulates the production of milk in the mammary glands?
There are four in all:Estrogen is the hormone that helps control breast cell proliferation and division. Breast development during puberty begins after the ovaries start to secrete estrogen.Progesterone is a steroid hormone that works together with estrogen to regulate breast development.Prolactin causes the alveoli to take nutrients (proteins, sugars) from the blood supply and turn them into breast milk.Oxytocin causes the cells around the alveoli to contract and eject milk down the milk ducts. This passing of the milk down the ducts is called the “let-down” (milk ejection) reflex.
What type of gland is a mammary gland?
Mammary glands are the source of milk production in female (and some male) mammals
What are the effects of high levels of prolactin and oxytocin?
Oxytocin is a hormone that functions to activate the mammary glands to release milk. Prolactin is a hormone that functions to start milk production in the mammary glands. High levels of these hormones would lead to the mammary glands secreting milk.
Does testosterone stimulate mammary gland development?
Testosterone is a male hormone and has no influence in the development of breasts (mammary glands), estrogen the female hormone does,
Mammary glands exhibit what type of gland?
it depends on wat u meanapocrine gland
What hormone do the parathyroid grands secrete and what does this hormone do?
Parathyroid glands secrete Parathamone hormone.It increases the Calcium level and decreases Phosphate level.
Carry milk from the mammary glands?
This process involves a system of ducts and glands that transport the milk from the mammary glands to the nipple. The milk is produced in the alveoli, then moves through the ducts to reach the nipple for feeding. The release of milk is triggered by oxytocin, which causes the muscle cells around the alveoli to contract and push the milk out.
