Keyword

milk ejection

Description: Milk ejection is the oxytocin-mediated reflex that moves milk from mammary alveoli through ducts during breastfeeding or milk removal.

Primary topic: Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (22%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q15330549

OpenAlex ID: keywords/milk-ejection

The Oxytocin Receptor System: Structure, Function, and Regulation

2001 · Gerald Gimpl, Falk Fahrenholz · Physiological Reviews · 3,083

Induction of maternal behavior in virgin rats after intracerebroventricular administration of oxytocin

1979 · Cort A. Pedersen, Arthur J. Prange · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 841

Intra- and extrahypothalamic vasopressin and oxytocin pathways in the rat

1978 · R.M. Buijs · Cell and Tissue Research · 830

Oxytocin is required for nursing but is not essential for parturition or reproductive behavior.

1996 · K Nishimori, L J Young, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 734

Regulation of Maternal Behavior and Offspring Growth by Paternally Expressed Peg3

1999 · L.-L. Li, E. B. Keverne, et al. · Science · 511

Mechanism of milk secretion

1971 · J. L. Linzell, M. Peaker · Physiological Reviews · 404

Postpartum Maternal Oxytocin Release by Newborns: Effects of Infant Hand Massage and Sucking

2001 · Ann‐Sofi Matthiesen, Anna‐Berit Ransjö‐Arvidson, et al. · Birth · 339

Deficiency in Mouse Oxytocin Prevents Milk Ejection,but not Fertility or Parturition

1996 · W. Scott Young III, Emily Shepard, et al. · Journal of Neuroendocrinology · 308

Ventral somatosensory determinants of nursing behavior in Norway rats. I. Effects of variations in the quality and quantity of pup stimuli

1990 · Judith M. Stern, Susan K. Johnson · Physiology & Behavior · 300

Ultrasound Imaging of Milk Ejection in the Breast of Lactating Women

2004 · Donna T. Ramsay, Jacqueline C. Kent, et al. · PEDIATRICS · 292

Initiation of Human Lactation: Secretory Differentiation and Secretory Activation

2007 · Wei Wei Pang, Peter E. Hartmann · Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia · 291

Oxytocin Release and Milk Removal in Ruminants

1998 · R.M. Bruckmaier, J.W. Blum · Journal of Dairy Science · 276

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A Conditional Knockout Mouse Line of the Oxytocin Receptor

2008 · Heon-Jin Lee, Heather K. Caldwell, et al. · Endocrinology · 269

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Unique and shared functions of different connexins in mice

2000 · A. Plum, G. Hallas, et al. · Current Biology · 255

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Electrophysiological evidence for the activation of supraoptic neurones during the release of oxytocin

1974 · D. W. Lincoln, J. B. Wakerley · The Journal of Physiology · 252

Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during breastfeeding—A systematic review

2020 · Kerstin UvnäsMoberg, Anette Ekström-Bergström, et al. · PLoS ONE · 246

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Electrophysiological differentiation of oxytocin-and vasopressin-secreting neurones

1977 · D. A. Poulain, J. B. Wakerley, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 243

Anatomy and Physiology of Lactation

2001 · Margaret C. Neville · Pediatric Clinics of North America · 217

Oxytocin induces morphological plasticity in the adult hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system

1986 · Dionysia T. Theodosis, Catherine Montagnese, et al. · Nature · 211

Factors Involved in the Ejection of Milk

1941 · Fordyce Ely, W.E. Petersen · Journal of Dairy Science · 207

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Maternal Psychological Distress and Lactation and Breastfeeding Outcomes: a Narrative Review

2021 · Emily M. Nagel, Mariann A. Howland, et al. · Clinical Therapeutics · 195

A review of the behavioural mechanism of milk ejection of the domestic pig

1980 · D. Fraser · Applied Animal Ethology · 194

Evidence for structural plasticity in the supraoptic nucleus of the rat hypothalamus in relation to gestation and lactation

1984 · D.T. Theodosis, D.A. Poulain · Neuroscience · 191

Oxytocin--anatomy and functional assignments: a minireview.

2005 · Alexander Kiss, Jens D Mikkelsen · PubMed · 186

Requirement of a Myocardin-Related Transcription Factor for Development of Mammary Myoepithelial Cells

2006 · Shijie Li, Shurong Chang, et al. · Molecular and Cellular Biology · 183

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