Assertion: endocrine system's hormone | /r/HasProperty | oxytocin
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text: Posterior pituitary hormones - Oxytocin
text: The hypothalamus also produces antidiuretic hormone, which regulates water balance in the body by inhibiting urine formation by the kidneys, and a hormone called oxytocin, which stimulates uterine contractions during childbirth and releases milk during breast-feeding.
text: Two hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin, are secreted directly into the blood stream by these hypothalamus nerve terminals.
text: The posterior pituitary is innervated by the hypothalamus; the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin are synthesized by neuroendocrine cells in the hypothalamus and stored at the nerves' ends in the posterior pituitary.
text: The hormone produced by the hypothalamus causing the milk let down and uterine contraction is oxytocin.
text: Two hormones, oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone (ADH), are produced and released this way.
text: The neurohypophysis or the pars nervosa in the posterior pituitary is responsible for storing and releasing two hormones: oxytocin and vasopressin.
text: The posterior pituitary releases two hormones, oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone.
text: Axons from the hypothalamus reach into the posterior pituitary where they release two hormones, oxytocin (OXT) and antidiuretic hormone (ADH or vasopressin), for storage and later release.