A mother’s love is required to nourish her young from breast milk Watch Video
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Description: Oxytocin is known as the ‘love’ hormone and is released into the mother’s system during breast-feeding. This video shows living, milk-producing structures (purple) in the mammary gland (breast) of mice that are in the late stages of pregnancy. When we add oxytocin to the gland, the amount of calcium within the cells increases (yellow). This causes the cells to contract, squeezing out the milk that would then (naturally) make its way into the feeding pup’s mouth. If we can learn more abou
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