Immunological protection of the vulnerable marsupial pouch young: Two periods of immune transfer during lactation in Trichosurus vulpecula (brushtail possum)

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 491-502

  Adamski, Frances M ^a   Demmer, Jerome ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Colostrum; IgA; IgG; Immunity; Lactation; Marsupial; Tight junctions; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; COLOSTRUM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LACTATION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ALOPIAS; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0034237113     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(00)00012-4     Document Type: Article

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