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Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Postpartum Period > Lactation > Milk Ejection

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Milk Ejection  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Milk Let down
  • Milk Let-down

Note

  • human & animal

Scope note

  • Expulsion of milk from the mammary alveolar lumen, which is surrounded by a layer of milk-secreting EPITHELIAL CELLS and a network of myoepithelial cells. Contraction of the myoepithelial cells is regulated by neuroendocrine signals.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under LACTATION 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008893

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