Oxytocin is 'birth hotmone'....

Oxytocin is 'birth hotmone'.

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Oxytocin acts as a powerful stimulant for the contraction of uterine myometrium at the end of gestation. This initiate the normal partuvition process, thus oxytocin is called a birth hotmone.

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Assertion : Oxytocin is a birth hormone and milk-forming hormone. Reason : Oxytocin is secreted from posterior lobe of pituitary gland and controls the contraction of uterine muscles at the time of implantation.

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Assertion : Pitocin or oxytocin is also called as 'birth hormone'. Reason : Pitocin helps in contractionn of uterine muscles.

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Oxytocin is used to

milk ejection

Parturition

Let down process

All of the above