Assertion: oxytocin | /r/HasProperty | secreted
Facets:
value: from the pituitary gland
type: LOCATION
value: in lactating women
type: LOCATION
value: from the nipple
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Oxytocin also plays an important role in breastfeeding, where it enables milk to be secreted from the nipple in lactating women.
text: Research on massage shows it increases production of oxytocin, a naturally-secreted hormone that supports optimal physical health as well as love, kindness, empathy, and bonding.
text: Oxytocin is secreted as your body readies for childbirth, but if you aren’t contracting quickly enough or aren’t in labor at all and need to deliver for health reasons, Pitocin can be administered as a medication to kick start those contractions.
text: Oxytocin is secreted from the posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis) and is regulated by the paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus.
text: Oxytocin is a natural hormone that is synthesized in the human brain then it is stored in the pituitary glands just at the base of the brain, where it is secreted whenever its functions are desired.
text: This act naturally increases oxytocin’s production, and when oxytocin is secreted, it causes contractions of the uterus, which speeds up labor.
text: Oxytocin is secreted from the pituitary gland.