A 28-year-old woman has been in the first stage of labor for several hours.Her uterine contractions are weak,and her labor is not progressing normally.Because the woman insists upon a vaginal delivery,the physician orders that pitocin (a synthetic oxytocin)be infused.What will be the effect of pitocin? What is the normal mechanism by which oxytocin acts to promote birth?
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