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Correlation between the Lactose Content of Milk and the Cerebroside and Choline Content of Brain

Department of Dairy Husbandry, University of Missouri, Columbia

ABSTRACT

1. Nine species of mammals have been examined for the cerebroside and choline contents of their brains. Brain eerebrosides show a high positive correlation with the lactose percentage of respective milks. There is a slight positive correlation between the choline content of brains and the lactose content of the mothers' milk.
   It is suggested that sphingosine base can reversibly take up galactose or choline phosphoric acid to form cerebrosides or sphingomyelins and, thus, cerebrosides may function as choline sparers.
   
2. There is an increase of cerebrosides with age and gestation. There is no significant difference in the cerebroside distribution between cortex and medulla of the brains of the species studied.
   

¹ India Government scholar.

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