What does lactant mean?
Lactant means lactating; producing milk..
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lactating; producing milk..
Under the circumstances where the hypophysectomized mothers (and unexpectedly, two control mothers) could not lactate, a schedule for the re-shuffling of test young between lactant and non-lactant mothers was instituted ( this was arranged so that each test young was alternately under the care of a pair of lactant and non-lactant mothers) .
[…] to provide adequate diets to families which have either a pregnant or a lactant woman. It also shows that to provide an adequate diet to a family with a pregnant woman would cost Cr $8.34 / month ( Cr$60.34 ) less than to feed the same family with a lactant woman.
Of the total number of 44 females captured, 11 (25.0%) were sterile, not participating, for various reasons, in reproduction; 4 females (9.1%) were pregnant with embryos 20 to 28 mm in length, and 29 females (65.9%) were lactant, one to ten days following parturition.
Suppose the farmer purchased 3 buffalloes on 1-6-1981 and it is assumed that they were lactant on 1-5-1981.
Even if a lactant has taken a poison, it will, as the hitherto literature shows, scarcely be excreted into her milk.
Given the evident toxicological impact of certain elements on lactants, and considering that the absorption of these is significantly higher than in adults, it is desirable that infant formulae are proportionally similar or inferior in levels of concentration to those supplying human milk
A saponite-rich bentonite showed the highest adsorbent capacity to reduce AFM1 in contaminated bovine milk (up to 80 ng/L) to a safe level (50 ng/L for adults and 25 ng/L for lactants) with moderate alteration of the nutritional properties of milk (Carraro et al. 2014).
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Lactant means lactating; producing milk..
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Under the circumstances where the hypophysectomized mothers (and unexpectedly, two control mothers) could not lactate, a schedule for the re-shuffling of test young between lactant and non-lactant mothers was instituted ( this was arranged so that each test young was alternately under the care of a pair of lactant and non-lactant mothers) .
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