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494. The milk-ejection response of the sow to standard doses of oxytocic hormone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

W. G. Whittlestone
W. G. Whittlestone
Affiliation:
Ruakura Animal Research Station, Department of Agriculture, Hamilton, New Zealand
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The milk-ejecting activity of the hormones of the posterior-pituitary gland is well known and has been adequately reviewed (1). Most of the published information deals with the lactating dairy cow. In the course of work at this Station involving the lactating sow as a basis for assay of the milk-ejecting hormones (2, 3), data have been collected on the effect of a standard dose of oxytocin. Our normal assay procedure (2) involves giving the animal a preliminary dose of 0·5 unit of oxytocin. Thus over one lactation we have been able to record the time between injection into the ear vein and the onset of milk let-down, and the period during which milk may be obtained by simple hand-milking, for a number of sows. Braude & Mitchell (4) have published figures for the milk let-down effects of doses of oxytocin ranging from 1 to 10 units. The following results were obtained with &5 unit. All sows used were of the Berkshire breed.

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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1953 , pp. 13 - 15
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1953

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