Comparison of Creamatocrit and Protein Concentration in Each Mammary Lobe of the Same Breast: Does the Milk Composition of Each Mammary Lobe Differ in the Same Breast?

Abstract

These study results demonstrate that milk synthesis differs in each mammary lobe, even in the same breast. The degree of fullness in each mammary lobe seems to play the most important role in the fat content. The protein content in the milk from each mammary lobe is determined by other factors, presumably by the feedback inhibitor of lactation, accumulated in the corresponding mammary lobe.