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why is oxytocin called female hormone?

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Oxytocin is a female hormone produced in the hypothalamus and stored in posterior pituitary. It is a hormone that is responsible for various functions in females such as milk ejection, contraction of muscles during parturition. It is a female hormone because it is produced in females only.

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