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MANY attempts have been made to determine the changes in composition of the blood that occur in its passage through the mammary gland, with the view of elucidating the mode of secretion of milk. Earlier workers in the field (Meigs1 1922) thought that by examining blood taken from the jugular vein they were studying a fluid of similar composition to arterial blood, and undoubtedly the former can be obtained far more easily than the latter in the case of the bovine. More recently, Blackwood and Stirling2 (1932) have suggested that jugular venous blood is more concentrated than arterial, and they attribute this concentration to removal of water by the salivary glands.
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Blackwood, J. H., and Stirling, J. D., Biochem. J., 26, 357 ; 1932.
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FOLLEY, S., PESKETT, G. Blood Composition in Relation to Milk Secretion. Nature 133, 142 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133142b0
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