mammary glands
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The appearance of the virus in mammary glands — in cattle and even in non lactating mice — was also unexpected.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
“Detection of virus in the mammary glands of two mice was consistent with the high virus load in the milk of lactating cows, even though these mice were not lactating,” per the study.
From Salon • May 28, 2024
It is produced by bacteria that live in the mammary glands of cows, but microbes in the human gut produce similar lantibiotics too.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
“The way the behavior starts is: they knead the mother’s mammary glands to actually suck the milk,” she says.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023
The many well-ascertained cases of various male mammals giving milk, show that their rudimentary mammary glands retain this capacity in a latent condition.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
