Figure 1
From: Uptake of Colostral Immunoglobulins by the Compromised Newborn Farm Animal
Concentrations of bovine serum albumin (BSA, a macromolecule marker, means ± SEM) in plasma of newborn preterm or term pigs in response to feeding either milk replacer (formula) or sow's colostrum (15 mL/kg/3 h) containing BSA (20 g/L) in the first feeding at 0 h (Sangild et al., unpublished observations). Premature pigs show reduced capacity to absorp BSA from colostrum, compared with term pigs, and feeding a milk replacer in stead of colostrum reduce this capacity further.