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Patent Inventor Names
Sharon M. Donovan0
Gregory T. Bleck0
Marcia Monaco-Siegel0
Matthew B. Wheeler0
Date of Patent
January 30, 2007
Patent Application Number
10676566
Date Filed
September 30, 2003
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Patent abstract
The present invention relates to animals that express exogenous growth factors in their milk, and in particular to pigs that express exogenous IGF-I in their milk. The present invention also relates to methods for increasing piglet weight gain and intestinal lactase activity. The present invention thus provides a method of facilitating piglet development and decreasing piglet mortality.
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