(n.) The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whey obtained by acid precipitation or by the application of rennin was devoid of bactericidal activity but was capable of slowing down proliferation of E coli.
(2) In respective curds 35.6, 47.1 and 57.7% of Aflatoxin M1 are recovered and 64.4, 52.9 and 42.3% in respective whey.
(3) Bovine colostrum whey and immunoglobulins were prepared.
(4) (v) Cells on all substrata examined lose virtually all mRNA for whey acidic protein despite the fact that this mRNA is abundant in the mammary gland itself; we conclude that additional, as-yet-unknown, factors are necessary for synthesis and secretion of whey acidic protein in culture.
(5) For obtaining protein isolates, water, whey, and waste effluents from a potato processing plant were used as extraction solvents.
(6) Concentrate rations during experimental period were: 1) control, 2) 14% dried whole whey, 3) 5.9% high mineral whey product, 4) 11.8% demineralized whey product, and 5) 9.8% lactose.
(7) Using a complex, but soluble supplement (whey powder) it is shown that reproducible incremental measurements can be made and that the supplement used gives increases in production of characteristic end-products only (carbon dioxide, methane, acetic and butyric acids).
(8) Whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major whey protein in mouse milk.
(9) S. aureus strains grown in TSB exhibited hydrophobic surface properties, whereas homologous strains grown in milk whey were hydrophilic.
(10) Different adsorption and chelating chromatographic methods were used to isolate immunoglobulins and lactoferrin from cheese whey.
(11) A milk protein, occurring in the whey fraction, has been characterized from camel milk.
(12) The alpha 2M preparation from mastitis whey migrated essentially as native alpha 2M, representing the 'slow' form of the molecule.
(13) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(14) This is the first documented case of an immunological reaction to the hydrolyzed whey protein, lactalbumin.
(15) Incubation of lymphocytes in whey that inhibited thymidine incorporation did not affect DNA synthesis in subsequent culturing of the same cells without whey.
(16) Addition of dried skim milk or dried whey to the diet resulted in higher values (P less than .05) for DMD and ED as compared with the basal or corn-soy and lard diet.
(17) Fifty to 500 microliter of whey were fractionated with a stepwise ionic strength gradient using water (buffer A) and increasing concentrations of .7 M sodium acetate (buffer B).
(18) The heating caused some whey proteins (beta-lactoglobulin) to enter the micelle fractions while the freeze-drying caused some of the largest micelles to disrupt.
(19) Most of the lactose of the whey had been utilized in all flask cultures after 168 hr at 29 C.
(20) The observed changes, after growth in milk whey, were not due to a mere adsorption of milk whey components.
Wheyey
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.