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A FAILURE of passage of immune and normal antibody across the placenta of the cow has been described by a number of authors1,2. Antibodies have been shown to be transferred to the calf, during the first 24 hr., in the colostrum, and this has been shown to be associated with a parallel rise in serum γ-globulin from around 2 per cent of the total serum proteins to 30 per cent, the level found in the adult cow2.
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TURK, J. Immunological Activity of Precolostral Calf Serum. Nature 183, 838 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183838a0
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