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. 1979 May;290(2):59–67. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1979.sp012759

The secretion of calcium and phosphorus into milk.

M C Neville, M Peaker
PMCID: PMC1278823  PMID: 469801

Abstract

1. The time course of appearance of radioactivity in milk was studied following close-arterial infusion of labelled phosphate, Ca or leucine into the mammary artery of lactating goats. Maximum activities were reached at 1.5 hr in all milk fractions including inorganic soluble phosphate, inorganic colloidal phosphate, casein P, soluble Ca, protein-associated Ca and casein. 2. At 0.5 hr, labelling of the soluble and colloidal phosphate fractions was significantly higher than that of the casein P. 3. Recovery of 32P or 47Ca 3 or more hours after infusion into the cistern of the mammary glands was 98% or greater, indicating that the mammary epithelium is virtually impermeable to [32P]phosphate and 47Ca in the milk to blood direction. 4. Ca and P failed to enter milk in excess of the normal secretion rate when the milk was diluted with isosmotic sucrose given by intraductal injection. 5. These data suggest that milk Ca and phosphate in their various forms are secreted, like protein and lactose, by exocytosis of Golgi vesicles. Unless a paracellular pathway is present, as in oxytocin-treated animals, the milk concentrations are maintained by virtue of the impermeability of the mammary epithelium to these substances.

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