Michael Akers provides the basics for understanding mammary development and lactation and conveys the critical regulatory events in lactation. This text willl prove to be an invaluable overview of mamorary development and lactation for undergraduates and graduates studying lactation, new researchers, and as a review for established scientists.
Lactation is not just cornerstone of the dairy industry-it is also vital too the successful rearing of livestock and companion animals, to human infant growth and well being, and to researchers in a range of scientific disciplines.
Lactation and the Mammary Gland provides the basics for understanding mammary development and lactation and conveys the critical regulatory events in lactation.
- Covers growth and development of the mammary gland, including comparisons between species.
- Imparts the critical nature of mammary growth and the onset of lactation at the time of parturition.
- Emphasizes the endocrine and growth factor regulation of both mammogenesis and lactogenesis.
- Discusses the role of growth hormone in development and maintenance of lactation.
- Reviews the presence of hormones, growth factors, and other bioactive compounds in milk and mammary secretions as well as the potential for use of the mammary gland as a bioreactor in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Describes the nutritional and management factors in milk production.
