Interesting Things the Science Community has Studied ... Milk from a Rat ?!

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wwswimming

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8558831

Practical aspects of milk collection in the rat.
Rodgers CT.
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ZENECA Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.
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It is a requirement as part of the safety evaluation of novel compounds, which are intended to be administered to pregnant women or women with young children, that the potential for the compound or its metabolites to be transferred from a dam to its litter during lactation is measured. The data obtained from the rat milking studies are also used to support the rat peri- and post-natal studies. Therefore it is necessary to collect multiple milk samples from lactating rats. In this paper it was decided to concentrate on three areas: 1. The factors which had to be considered during the development of the rat milking technique; 2. The outline of the basic study design for a rat milking study; 3. The technique for milking rats.


Hmmmm ... good.

I wonder if you can make milk chocolate using rat's milk ?
 

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Pheran

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Rats are mammals, mammals produce milk. No surprises there. The study is trying to find out if drugs given to the mother are passed to the children via the milk - probably as a first evaluation for a drug that is intended for human use.
 
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