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    The tammar wallaby: A marsupial model to examine the timed delivery and role of bioactives in milk

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    Sharp, JA; Wanyonyi, S; Modepalli, V; Watt, A; Kuruppath, S; Hinds, LA; Kumar, A; Abud, HE; Lefevre, C; Nicholas, KR
    Date
    2017-04-01
    Source Title
    General and Comparative Endocrinology
    Publisher
    ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Kumar, Amit; Nicholas, Kevin; Lefevre, Christophe
    Affiliation
    School of BioSciences
    Medical Biology (W.E.H.I.)
    Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
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    Sharp, J. A., Wanyonyi, S., Modepalli, V., Watt, A., Kuruppath, S., Hinds, L. A., Kumar, A., Abud, H. E., Lefevre, C. & Nicholas, K. R. (2017). The tammar wallaby: A marsupial model to examine the timed delivery and role of bioactives in milk. GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY, 244, pp.164-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.08.007.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/257637
    DOI
    10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.08.007
    Abstract
    It is now clear that milk has multiple functions; it provides the most appropriate nutrition for growth of the newborn, it delivers a range of bioactives with the potential to stimulate development of the young, it has the capacity to remodel the mammary gland (stimulate growth or signal cell death) and finally milk can provide protection from infection and inflammation when the mammary gland is susceptible to these challenges. There is increasing evidence to support studies using an Australian marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), as an interesting and unique model to study milk bioactives. Reproduction in the tammar wallaby is characterized by a short gestation, birth of immature young and a long lactation. All the major milk constituents change substantially and progressively during lactation and these changes have been shown to regulate growth and development of the tammar pouch young and to have roles in mammary gland biology. This review will focus on recent reports examining the control of lactation in the tammar wallaby and the timed delivery of milk bioactivity.

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