The growing world population (7.8 billion) exerts an increased pressure on the cattle
industry amongst others. Intensification and expansion of milk and beef production inevitably …

Many different bacterial species have the ability to cause an infection of the bovine
mammary gland and the host response to these infections is what we recognize as mastitis …

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 …

Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli are among the most prevalent species of gram-
positive and gram-negative bacteria, respectively, that induce clinical mastitis. The innate …

The innate immune system constitutes an efficient defense against invading microbial
pathogens. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) eventually alert vertebrates about the presence of …

The health of dairy animals, particularly the milk‐producing mammary glands, is essential to
the dairy industry because of the crucial hygienic and economic aspects of ensuring …

A cattle database of candidate genes and genetic markers for milk production and mastitis
has been developed to provide an integrated research tool incorporating different types of …

Mastitis caused by Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathology of dairy
cows. To better understand the differential response of the mammary gland to these two …

The objective of the present study was to characterize the innate immune responses
induced by in vitro stimulation of bovine primary mammary epithelial cells (bMEC) using …

The epithelium of the mammary gland (MG) fulfills three major functions: nutrition of progeny,
transfer of immunity from mother to newborn, and its own defense against infection. The …