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IN studying the function of the milk gland, with the view of increasing milk production, particular attention has been devoted in recent years to the milk-ejection mechanism (the let-down reflex). Ely and Petersen1 demonstrated the important part played by oxytocin in milk ejection; Grachev2 and Barishnikov et al. 3 emphasized the influence exerted by the central nervous system.
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Ely and Petersen, J. Dairy Sci., 17 (1937).
Grachev, P. I., Zh. Obsh. Biol. (U.S.S.R.), 14, 333 (1953).
Barishnikov, I. A., Borsuk, V. N., Zax, M. G., Zotikova, I. N., Pavlov, G. N., and Tolbukhin, V. I., Zh. Obsh. Biol. (U.S.S.R.), 14, 257 (1953).
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BILEK, J., JANOVSKY, M. A Radiographic Method for the Study of the Function of the Cow's Udder. Nature 177, 582–583 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177582a0
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