The pituitary gland secretes multiple hormones, including melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH, or intermedin), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone, or TSH).What horm
and when your baby suckles, those nerves tell your body to release prolactin and the hormoneoxytocin. Prolactin produces the milk, and oxytocin causes the muscle contractions that allow the milk to flow through the milk ducts
What causes the body to release volatile organic compounds? What is the stimulus for the release of glucagon? Explain the role of the hormones involved in the production and letdown of milk. What is the function of the hormone thrombopoietin? Explain the hormonal reaction to hypoxia. Explain how...
Just like how a child evolves into a teenager and an adult, there’s a period of body morphing and hormone shifts that a woman goes through when she becomes a mother. Plus there’s an identity transition: You go from living a life where you are at the center to waking up and ...
Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. In women, it is released mainly after distension of the cervix and vagina during labor facilitating birth, and also after stimulation of the nipples helping breastfeeding. Oxytocin is released during orgasm in both...