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until IgA is produced against it. Thus IgA may serve to exclude
VetBooks.ir intact food antigens from the body. The extent to which normal
animals make antibodies against proteins in their food has been
unclear. Cats fed soy and casein produced high levels of IgG and
IgA antibodies in their serum against both these proteins. For
unknown reasons, proteins from canned food appear to be more
immunogenic than unprocessed proteins.
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