Mouse milk
The milk obtained from mice is called mouse milk . It is obtained exclusively for experimental purposes. Researchers succeeded e.g. B. to obtain a malaria vaccine from mouse milk.
The extraction of mouse milk is very laborious. Between 4000 and 4500 mice have to be milked for one liter . Milking is done with a pipette, the individual procedure takes about half an hour with an amount of 0.25 ml. One liter of mouse milk is worth around 20,000 euros . A mouse milking machine was invented at Ulm University in 1981 to mechanically support the milking process .
In the vernacular there is the phrase “that's for milking a mouse”, but it is not known whether this is related to the effort involved in obtaining milk.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anthony W. Stowers, Li-how Chen, Yanling Zhang, Michael C. Kennedy, Lanling Zou: A recombinant vaccine expressed in the milk of transgenic mice protects Aotus monkeys from a lethal challenge with Plasmodium falciparum . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 99 , no. 1 , January 8, 2002, ISSN 0027-8424 , p. 339-344 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.012590199 , PMID 11752405 , PMC 117562 (free full text) - ( pnas.org [accessed June 7, 2016]).
- ↑ Planet Knowledge - Myths and Curiosities