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Science 19 August 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3425, pp. 472 - 473
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3425.472
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Transfer of Maternal Calcium to the Offspring via the Milk

Felix Bronner 1

1 Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York

By measuring the specific activities of milk and of maternal and filial long bones 3 months after calcium-45 had been given to the then nonpregnant mothers, it was found that the magnitude of the contribution of the maternal calcium stores to milk formation is similar to the contribution to the bone calcium of the offspring, that is, 10 to 15 percent of either milk calcium or filial calcium is maternal in origin.

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