> Remember having to look up the citation for this a few years ago - believe
it
> was the "galt" response and would bet I found it in Lawerence - where I
can't
> remember.  Will try to find it once again - have talked/heard about it for
> years.

thanks Gretchen. I already had read that in looking for references (Lawrence
is the first book I pick up when looking for something). But I cannot find a
supporting reference.

And, as far as I understand it, BALT, MALT, GALT do apply to the pathway of
responses via the immunesystem of the mother.
GALT applys to the gut-mammary pathway, so it means - i think - the mammary
gland responds with prododucing sIgA, on attacks of patogens in the mother,
in this case in the gut of the mother.

This is how i understand it. Please correct me if i'm wrong.

I've looked it up in articles as Hamosh
(http://www.medscape.com/Medscape/WomensHealth/journal/1996/v01.n09/w120.ham
osh/w120.hamosh.html) and Newman (the article in the Scientific American),
but cannot find support of this often made statement.

I will look into the articles of  Paula Meier.

regards, Annelies Bon
Lay counsellor of the Dutch bf organization "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"
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