Protein Requirements of Infants: 4--Serum Protein Concentrations in Normal Full-Term Infants

The Serum Protein Levels of Newborn African Infants

“…The idea that a raised level of y-globulin is an inherited racial trait is nolt absolutely excluded by these results, since inherited characters are not necessarily present at birth; the results, however, give the idea no support. It appears from the second series of estimations that, as with white infants (Poyner-Wall and Finch, 1950) there is a tendency for total protein and total globulin levels to fall during the first few weeks of life. There is clearly no sudden increase in y-globulin as a result of suckling.…”