(n.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
(n.) A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antibody specific to S agalactiae was isolated from all colostrum samples.
(2) Colostrum also suppressed myeloperoxidase activity and lysozyme activity, but not beta-glucuronidase activity in PMN lysates.
(3) Gnotobiotic lambs were protected against rotavirus infection by the presence in the gut at the time of infection of colostrum or serum containing antibodies to rotavirus.
(4) It is considered that foetal maturity is the pre-requisite before a decision to induce should be made in practice, and 3 criteria are essential: 1) a gestational length of greater than 320 days, 2) substantial mammary development, 3) the presence of colostrum in the mammae.
(5) These results suggest the important roles of daily changing constituents in breast milk, especially in colostrum milk, in the nutrition of the newborn.
(6) Bovine colostrum whey and immunoglobulins were prepared.
(7) Intramammary vaccination resulted in the production of colostrum which significantly reduced the enterotoxigenic effects of the vaccine strain of E. coli organisms but not that of a heterologous strain.
(8) Pr antibody titers were generally higher in colostrum than in serum, but the opposite was true in milk compared with serum, with milk titers declining markedly during lactation.
(9) Our results indicated effective antidiarrhoea action of colostrum in some patients with chronic diarrhoea of infective origin.
(10) Immunoglobulin G1 concentration was measured in 919 first milking colostrums from Holstein cows during a 4-yr period on a commercial dairy farm.
(11) There is a decrease in the specific activity of labeled IgG1 of serum over 3 wk following the feeding of iodine-125 labeled immunoglobulin IgG1 in colostrum to calves at birth.
(12) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
(13) Colostrum, serum and saliva were simultaneously obtained from 50 normal mothers.
(14) The protective antibodies are transferred passively to calves through the colostrum.
(15) Intestinal macromolecular transmission in young rats of 10, 14, 18, 22 and 30 days of age was measured as the blood serum levels of markers 6 h after oral feeding of a solution containing bovine IgG (BIgG), bovine serum albumin (BSA) and fluorescein-isothiocyanate-labeled dextran 70,000 (FITC-D), either alone (controls) or with soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) or swine colostrum trypsin inhibitor (SCTI).
(16) Degree of prematurity has been found to have profound influence on the volume, protein concentration, and cell and macrophage counts of colostrum.
(17) The Mn, Cu, Fe, Zn content in colostrum was estimated by atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(18) Underfeeding reduced the total yield of colostrum during the first 18 hours after birth by decreasing the prenatal accumulation of colostrum and its subsequent rates of secretion.
(19) Bovine apoTf and colostrum lactoferrin were greater than 100-fold less active; human milk apo-lactoferrin and apo-ovotransferrins were inactive.
(20) Frozen colostrum thawed in a microwave oven should provide a reasonable source of colostrum when fresh high quality colostrum is not available.