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Importance of Oxytocin
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Name the hormones that regulate synthesis and release of milk by mammary glands.
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Synthesis of milk in the mammary gland is by prolactin, and estrogens, progesterone; Release of milk through nipple by suckling reflex is by oxytocin.
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