Lactation

• Estrogens - proliferation of mammary ducts progesterone -development of lobules prolactin (_ till term)

all of these hormones need for full lobuloalveolar development of breasts (synergy)

• Oxytocin - contraction of myoepithelial cells lining duct walls with ejection of milk through nipple

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