The mammary gland is a complex organ that provides neonatal offspring with milk for
nourishment and disease resistance. Specific and innate immune factors associated with …

Understanding the immune defenses of the mammary gland is instrumental in devising and
developing measures to control mastitis, the major illness of dairy ruminants. Innate …

Lactation is considered the final phase of the mammalian reproductive cycle, and the
mammary gland provides milk for nourishment and disease resistance to the newborn …

Implementation of mastitis control strategies has led to a change in the incidence and
etiology of mastitis over the past 40 years. This change has resulted in a decrease in the …

Mastitis is an inflammation of the mammary gland commonly caused by bacterial infection.
The inflammatory process is a normal and necessary immunological response to invading …

Initial studies to determine the prevalence of mastitis in heifers of breeding age and in
pregnant dairy heifers demonstrated that IMI were present in 97% of heifers and 75% of …

Lactoferrin (LF) concentrations in the milk with different levels of the somatic cell count score
were examined using an ELISA to determine whether milk LF concentration is influenced by …

Abstract Teat canal keratin (n= 461) and mammary gland secretions (n= 370) were collected
from 31 unbred and 85 primigravid Jersey heifers from one research and three commercial …

Bovine IgG1 is thought to be specifically transported by a process of transcytosis across the
mammary epithelial cells during colostrogenesis. Mammary IgG1 appearance in cow …

Mastitis continues to be the most costly disease of dairy animals. Field surveys of major
livestock diseases in Pakistan have ranked mastitis as number one disease of dairy animals …