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AFFERENT nervous impulses from mammary glands are known to play a part in the reflex release of oxytocin during suckling1. They may also be implicated in the subjective sensation accompanying milk-ejection in women2, in nervous reflex arcs controlling intramammary muscle tone3 and milk secretion4 postulated by Russian workers, and in the control of secretion from the anterior pituitary5. This communication describes preliminary findings from electrophysiological investigations of action potential discharges in mammary afferent nerves.
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FINDLAY, A. Sensory Discharges from Lactating Mammary Glands. Nature 211, 1183–1184 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111183a0
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