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IN the course of a study of protein metabolism during lactation in the rabbit it was found that iron added to the whey fraction of rabbit milk changed the colour from yellow to bright pink. The colour change was similar to that observed when iron is added to the serum iron-binding protein, transferrin. It suggested that rabbit milk contains a high concentration of similar protein. This would be a most unusual finding, and it prompted an investigation of the iron concentration and iron-binding capacity of rabbit whey and rabbit serum during lactation.
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JORDAN, S., KALDOR, I. & MORGAN, E. Milk and Serum Iron and Iron-binding Capacity in the Rabbit. Nature 215, 76–77 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215076a0
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