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Which hormones causes ejection of milk in the mammary ducts making it accessible for the infant?

The hormone "oxytocin" is responsible for milk letdown.


Milk letdown is a neuroendocrine reflex arc that requires which hormone?

Oxytocin is the hormone required for milk letdown. It is released from the pituitary gland in response to suckling or breast stimulation.


Is it normal to experience intense shivering when breast milk comes in?

It can be, does this occur on letdown, if so it might be related to the tingling some mothers get when milk is letdown.


Why is hormone causes the ejection of milk from the mammary gland?

Prolactin


Where is prolactin located in the body?

Prolactin is a hormone that is primarily produced in the anterior pituitary gland and its target tissue is the mammary glands and stimulates the letdown, or secretion, of milk from the breasts for nursing an infant,


What hormone mainly serves to stimulate milk production by the breasts?

Another main hormone that causes milk production and nursing is oxytocin. It is the same feel-good hormone that’s released during breast stimulation and sex.


What role does the hormone oxytocin play in the process of milk ejection during breastfeeding?

Oxytocin is a hormone that is released during breastfeeding and plays a crucial role in the process of milk ejection. It causes the muscles around the milk ducts in the breast to contract, pushing the milk out into the nipple for the baby to feed.


What hormone can you use to bring in breast milk?

The prolactin hormone helps in producing milk.


What is the hormone that causes ejection of milk?

prolactin - anterior pituitary gland oxytocin - posterior pituitary gland


What hormone made by the hypothalamus causes uterine contraction during childbirth and milk let-down when a baby is nursing?

Oxytocin


Is milk a hormone?

Milk has hormones in :D


What anterior pituitary hormones stimulates milk production?

The hormone prolactin will cause milk production.