Milk and milk components are mainly used for related food products. Nevertheless, some of the milk constituents such as casein have alternative non-food applications. In ancient Egypt caseinbased glue was first used. Milk casein proteins are also used for other technical applications [1] including plastic manufacturing [2], fiber textile [3], methane gas production [4]. Casein proteins in bovin...

It is well known that the nutritive value of milk proteins is reduced by heating, for example when milk is brought to, and kept for some time at, its boiling point. The reduction may be due either to the breakdown of certain amino acids under the influence of heat, or to combination of amino acids with other chemical constituents of milk, as in the formation of the so-called Schiff bases due to...

All chemicals that are not normal constituents of human milk should be considered undesirable contaminants. In the present review, the following substances detected in human milk are considered: persistent organochlorine pesticides; polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB); polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDD) and dibenzofurans (PCDF); polybrominated compounds; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH); t...

An increase in the plane of energy nutrition of the cow is known to increase both the yield and the solids-not-fat (s.N.F.) content of milk: a decrease in fat content also occurs but there is little effect on the yield of fat (for review of literature, see Burt, 1957 a). Though small depressions in milk lactose content occur with underfeeding (Rowland, 1946), any change in S.N.F. content is lar...

In our previous study, it was demonstrated that the administration of anion salts, which slightly lower the dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD), in the prepartum period is safe and effective for preventing milk fever in multiparous cows. In the present study, several clinico-pathological constituents in serum and urine, which might be related to milk fever, were analyzed using stored samples...

Purified plasma membrane fractions from lactating bovine mammary glands and membranes of milk fat globules from the same source were similar in distribution and fatty acid composition of phospholipids. The sphingomyelin content of the phospholipid fraction of both membranes was higher than in these fractions from other cell components, beta-carotene, a constituent characteristic of milk fat, wa...

To determine the effect of bromocryptine on plasma prolactin, metabolites and milk production, six healthy crossbred goats in their second or third lactation were selected from the institute's goat herd. The goats were injected with bromocryptine @ 5 mg per day intramuscularly for a period of 5 days during 55±60 days of lactation (period I) and treatment was repeated after 14 days for an additi...

I. A study was made of the partition of the major constituents of rat’s milk during the formation of the clot in the infant rat’s stomach. 2. Milk was obtained from the dams by manual expression after separation from their litters for periods ranging from 12 to 23 h. 3. The ratio of fat to protein in the clots removed from the stomachs of the 11-day-old pups was more than double that found in t...