Article
Maternal Transfer of Immunoglobulins into Egg Yolks of Birds
2013-01-01
Abstract excerpt
In avian species, maternal IgY transferred across egg yolks from mother to offspring plays a key role to protect the hatching chicks against pathogenic attacks. The process of avian maternal IgY transfer is divided into two steps: the first step is the transfer from the maternal circulation to the egg yolks of developing oocytes in the maternal body, and the second step is the transfer from the egg yolks to the em...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ca41a51e-d222-517f-b1b2-a1c0cafbe860
- DOI
- 10.2141/jpsa.0120194
