Oxytocin and prolactin responses associated with nipple stimulation contraction stress tests.
Levels of oxytocin in plasma of pregnant women in the third trimester undergoing nipple stimulation-contraction stress tests were found, by parametric (paired t test) statistical analysis to be elevated. No differences in the plasma increases in oxytocin levels were found between those patients undergoing successful and those undergoing unsuccessful nipple stimulation-contraction stress tests. No significant differences in plasma levels of prolactin were associated with nipple stimulation in these patients.
Finley
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Amico
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Castillo
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Seitchik
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D001940:Breast / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009558:Nipples / Q000502:physiology*; D010121:Oxytocin / Q000097:blood*; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D011388:Prolactin / Q000097:blood*; D014590:Uterine Contraction
D010121:Oxytocin; D011388:Prolactin