Answer: Vigorous contraction of uterus during child birth — Oxytocin acts on the smooth muscles of the uterus and stimulates their contraction at the time of child birth, and also triggers milk ejection from mammary glands.

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Oxytocin helps in:

Milk production

Water reabsorption

Vigorous contraction of uterus during child birth

Growth of mammary glands

Neurohypophysis (posterior pituitary) stores and releases:

Vasopressin is also known as:

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