In this task, you are given a sentence from the research paper and your task is to classify the given sentence into the following categories: Background (Why is this problem important? What relevant works have been created before? What is still missing in the previous works? What are the high-level research questions? How might this help other research or researchers?), Purpose (What specific things do the researchers want to do? What specific knowledge do the researchers want to gain? What specific hypothesis do the researchers want to test?), Method (How did the researchers do the work or find what they sought? What are the procedures and steps of the research?), or Finding (What did the researchers find out? Did the proposed methods work? Did the thing behave as the researchers expected?). 
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Question: has been widely used as a pharmacological tool in preclinical studies to inform on CEACAM1 pathway biology although limited data are available on its CEACAM1 blocking characteristics or pharmacodynamic-pharmacokinetic profiles.

Answer: background


Question: lactoferrin as a treatment for calf diarrhea was not beneficial.

Answer: finding


Question: Our objective was to evaluate the level of passive protection against transmissible gastroenteritis ( TGE ) among 57 newborn piglets nursing from seven seropositive sows previously naturally infected with porcine respiratory coronavirus ( PRCV ).

Answer:
purpose