Abstract
Summary and conclusion
Newborn rabbits were exchanged between does previously shown to be members of families that were either “resistant or anon-resistant” with respect to incidence of spontaneous; non-lipid, medial lesions. Lesions were found at 8 weeks of age only in the rabbits nursed by does of the non-resistant family. These data suggest that a factor is present in rabbit milk which either enhances the formation of the non-lipid, medial aortic lesion found in weanling rabbits of non-resistant strains or which, in resistant rabbits, protects against an ubiquitous lesion-inducing agent.
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