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Descriptor English: Milk Ejection
Descriptor Spanish: Eyección Láctea
Descriptor eyección láctea
Scope note: Expulsión de la leche de la luz alveolar mamaria, que está rodeada por una capa de CÉLULAS EPITELIALES secretorias de leche y una malla de células mioepiteliales. La contracción de las células mioepiteliales está regulada por señales neuroendocrinas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ejeção Láctea
Descriptor French: Éjection du lait
Entry term(s): Ejection, Milk
Milk Let down
Milk Let-down
Tree number(s): G08.686.523.460
G08.686.702.500.460
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008893
Scope note: 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
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under LACTATION 1975-90
History Note: 91(75); was see under LACTATION 1975-90
Related: Breast Milk Expression MeSH
DeCS ID: 9081
Unique ID: D008893
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/11/11
Revision Date: 2016/06/17
Milk Ejection - Preferred
Concept UI M0013889
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Milk Ejection
Entry term(s) Ejection, Milk
Milk Let down
Milk Let-down



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