Article
Milk composition and lactation of beta-casein-deficient mice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Jun 1994
Kumar S, Clarke A R, Hooper M L, Horne D S, Law A J, Leaver J, Springbett A, Stevenson E, Simons J P
Abstract excerpt
beta-Casein is a major protein component of milk and, in conjunction with the other caseins, it is assembled into micelles. The casein micelles determine many of the physical characteristics of milk, which are important for stability during storage and for milk-processing properties. There is evi...
Topics
- Animals
- Blastocyst
- Caseins
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Female
- Genotype
- Homozygote
- Lactation
- Litter Size
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Micelles
- Milk
- Milk Proteins
- Pregnancy
- Pseudopregnancy