Expulsion of milk from the mammary alveolar lumen, which is surrounded by a layer of milk-secreting EPITHELIAL CELLS and a network of myoepithelial cells. Contraction of the myoepithelial cells is regulated by neuroendocrine signals.

Annotation

human & animal

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DUI

D008893 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0013889

History note

91(75); was see under LACTATION 1975-90

Public note

91; was see under LACTATION 1975-90