Question

Which hormone acts on mammary glands to produce, secrete and eject milk? Oxytocin or progesterone?

Answer 1

production of milk is by prolactin and ejection of milk is by oxytocin

Answer 2

Progestrogen acts on mammary gland and stimulate the secretion of milk and oxytocin act on mammary gland to eject milk.....since it acts on smooth muscle to contract.

Answer 3

oxytocin is commonly called as milk ejecting hormone but prolactin is involved in milk production

Answer 4

dude the answer should be OXYTOCIN..

Answer 5

Production and secretion of milk is by prolactin, but ejection of milk is by oxytocin

Answer 6

Oxytocin acts on smooth muscles of our body and stimulates their contraction. In females, it stimulates a vigorous contraction of uterus at the time of child birth, and milk ejection from the mammary gland after child birth.

Prolactin regulates the growth of the mammary glands and production of milk in them.

Progesterone supports pregnancy. Progesterone also acts on mammary glands and stimulates the formation of alveoli ( sac like structures which store milk) and milk secretion.

Answer 7

it is oxytocin which is responsible for secretion of milk

Answer 8

The hormone oxytocin is used by a female body for the growth of mammary glands and to produce, secrete and eject milk

Answer 9

intiated by progesteron means development of mammary lobules and after child birth secretion and ejection of milk done by oxytocin

Answer 10

Oxytocin from anterior pituitary helps in synthesis of milk from mammary glands during last months of gestation period