Oxytocin is required for nursing but is not essential for parturition or reproductive behavior.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  1996-10-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/PNAS.93.21.11699PMID 8876199PMCID PMC38121
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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