Cellular Defence in Mammary Gland: An Overview

The mammary gland of ruminants is the organ of extremely economic important due to the major role in providing nutrition source for a significant portion of the world's human population. The mammary gland in ruminant is also responsible for providing protective immunity to neonates and for defending itself from invading pathogens (Kehrli & Harp, 2001). 0 which is one of the commonest diseases of milch animals, complex and complicated in nature, keeps us away from milk - the precious 'amrit'. Antibiotics are an integral part of most mastitis control scheme and growing resistance of many bacterial strains to antibiotics is a rapidly increasing concern (Angulo et al., 1999). Current methods for the control and prevention of bovine mastitis have the potential for creating human health hazards both from antibiotics used to treat mastitis and from the chemicals used to sanitize teat and equipment.