"If the animal has a long lactation period, I can sometimes take an infant, like a kangaroo, hand-feed it for a while and then return it to the mother and she will take it back," she said.
"A female can offload 90% or more of her body burden of PCBs to her calf through the milk during the long lactation period, just at the time the new calf is very vulnerable," said Jepson.
It's noted in the book that Gethenians remain female for the duration of pregnancy and a six-to-eight-month lactation period, then revert to androgyny, which eliminates any "possessive" maternal instinct.
Protein significantly decreased with lactation period in preterm HM.
Adjuvant therapy was planned to commence once the lactation period was complete.
Over a lactation period we recommend testing multiple BTM samples on a herd.
Treatment was administered from 10 days before parturition and continued through the 5 month lactation period.
CLA administration to sows reduced backfat thickness loss during the lactation period and led to higher piglet weight at weaning.
Ewes were fed the experimental diets during the last two months of pregnancy and throughout the lactation period.
At this stage, most patients were still in the breastfeeding period, and all 15 subjects in the lactation period were diagnosed with uterine perforation.
The above-described method was applied to milk samples obtained from rats in lactation period subjected to 12 h of photoperiod.
