Catecholamine antagonism to oxytocin-induced milk-ejection

Vorherr, H.

Acta Endocrinologica. Supplementum 154: 3-38

1971


ISSN/ISBN: 0300-9750
PMID: 4397420
Document Number: 31444
In rats and rabbits the catecholamine-induced inhibition of milk-ejection was due to stimulation of mammary myoepithelial beta-receptors, resulting in myoepithelial insensitivity to oxytocin, and of vascular alpha-receptors, causing constriction of the mammary gland blood vessels.

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