Lactation is a process in which milk is produced by mammals for feeding and nourishing their young.
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Lactation Benefits
- The Royal Society: Evolution of mammals: Lactation helps mothers to cope with unreliable food supplies (2004)
Lactation Hazards
- Annales Nestle: HIV and Lactation (2007)
Lactation Forums and Blogs
Pharyngula: The Strange Case of the Woman with a Breast on her Foot
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Science Roll: Male Pregnancy and Lactation?
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Are there drugs that can make a woman lactate?
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Domperidone and Raglan can help induce lactation in women.
Is it possible to lactate when you are not pregnant?(3 Answers)
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Lactation is hormonally driven, so anybody with mammary glands and the appropriate hormonal triggers (adequate concentrations of prolactin and oxytocin) can lactate. Newborn babies of both sexes frequently ...
References
Fast Facts
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All mammals lactate
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[http
//animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/topics/mammal_anatomy/mammary_glands.html Mammary glands] are modified sweat glands
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Men and women can lactate
