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Oxytocin, vasopressin, and prolactin responses associated with nipple stimulation
C G Hatjis1, M Morris, J C Rose
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
Southern Medical Journal
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
Nipple stimulation by pregnant women close to term results in oxytocin release, as reflected by increased levels of oxytocin in peripheral plasma. This appears to be a specific response, and it does not involve either vasopressin or prolactin release.