▪ Abstract Studies using both transgenic mice and transfected mammary epithelial cells have
established that composite response elements containing multiple binding sites for several …

Different systems are being studied and used to prepare recombinant proteins for
pharmaceutical use. The blood, and still more the milk, from transgenic animals appear a …

The study aimed to define the prevalence, characteristics, and clinical importance of
nutritional disorders in patients with liver cirrhosis. Nutritional status was evaluated in 120 …

The susceptibility of sheep to scrapie is known to involve, as a major determinant, the nature
of the prion protein (PrP) allele, with the VRQ allele conferring the highest susceptibility to …

Amid the explosion of fundamental knowledge generated from transgenic animal models, a
small group of scientists has been producing transgenic livestock with goals of improving …

Interspecies comparisons of cDNA and mosaic milk protein genes have confirmed their high
rate of evolution, but the overall gene organization has been conserved. The three Ca …

Preeclampsia (PE) is a common human-specific pregnancy disorder defined by
hypertension and proteinuria during gestation and responsible for maternal and fetal …

The production of transgenic rats by DNA-microinjection into fertilizer ova has now become
an established procedure, although fewer than 20 lines have been described during the last …

alpha-Lactalbumin is an abundant milk-specific calcium metalloprotein which has an
evolutionary relationship to lysozyme. It modifies the substrate specificity of a Golgi …

The whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major milk protein in mice, rats, and rabbits but has not
been found in milk of livestock including swine. To determine whether mammary gland …