Believe it or not, the glands that produce milk are mutated sweat glands. In the monotremes, or egg-laying mammals (platypus and echidna), milk oozes out over a wide patch of skin (the mother platypus flexes her belly muscles to make a sort of trough to catch it). In more advanced mammals, it's excreted at specific sites, called teats.
Believe it or not, the glands that produce milk are mutated sweat glands. In the most primitive mammals (platypus and echidna), milk oozes out over a wide patch of skin (the mother platypus flexes her belly muscles to make a sort of trough to catch it). In more advanced mammals, it's excreted at specific sites, called teats.
milk production ***** Human = breasts. Cow = udder.
Estrogen is the primary hormone that stimulates the development of the mammary gland. It promotes the growth of breast tissue and ducts, preparing the gland for potential milk production during pregnancy and lactation.
Prolactin
The mammary gland of humans produces milk, which is a nutrient-rich fluid that provides necessary nutrients, antibodies, and growth factors for infants.
Prolactin is not considered a tropic hormone because it does not act on another endocrine gland to regulate the secretion of another hormone. Instead, prolactin primarily functions to stimulate milk production in mammary glands after childbirth.
Mammary glands are the source of milk production in female (and some male) mammals
milk production ***** Human = breasts. Cow = udder.
mammary alveolus
mammary glands produce milk in a females body
The mammary glands are the organs of milk production
Mammary Glands
Formation of milk in the mammary gland of a mammal.
Estrogen is the primary hormone that stimulates the development of the mammary gland. It promotes the growth of breast tissue and ducts, preparing the gland for potential milk production during pregnancy and lactation.
The mammary gland is an exocrine gland. It has ducts through which milk is secreted.
Nipples or teats
Prolactin
The mammary gland of humans produces milk, which is a nutrient-rich fluid that provides necessary nutrients, antibodies, and growth factors for infants.