Neuroendocrine control of the milk ejection reflex.
The rate and extent to which milk is ejected from the mammary gland during suckling or milking depend upon the relative functioning of a complex array of facilitatory and inhibitory factors which are intertwined and capable of adapting. Some of these operate to regulate the release of oxytocin from the neurohypophysis; others function peripherally to regulate the contractile effectiveness of the oxytocin-sensitive myoepithelium within the mammary gland.
D000818:Animals; D000833:Animals, Suckling; D002417:Cattle / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000502:physiology; D007774:Lactation; D008321:Mammary Glands, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D008893:Milk Ejection; D010121:Oxytocin / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000502:physiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000662:veterinary
D010121:Oxytocin