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IT is known that adrenalin inhibits milk ejection1. In an attempt to determine whether this inhibition is central or peripheral a series of experiments were performed on rats. The effect of prior administration of ergotamine on the adrenalin-induced black was studied. In the course of this investigation it appeared that ergotamine and ergometrine also had a milk-ejecting action of their own. This property of ergot causing milk ejection does not appear to have been described before.
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CHAUDHURY, R., DIKSHIT, M. Milk-ejecting Action of Ergot. Nature 186, 722 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186722a0
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