longed exclusive breastfeeding can prevent allergic disease [8, 9] . There are over 250 proteins in human breast milk including a wide variety of cytokines, inflammatory mediators, signalling molecules and soluble receptors [10] , yet there is limited literature on the relationship between maternal diet, breast milk immune constituents and allergy development. In this issue of International Arc...

BACKGROUND Placental supply of fatty acids (FA) is essential for normal foetal development but in premature infants this supply is interrupted. To investigate the association of intrautrine growth restriction with serum phospholipid and breast milk FA composition, we compared preterm infants small for gestational age (SGA) and matched appropriate for gestational age (AGA), and their mothers' mi...

In discussing whether or not homologous milk is an advantage to the young (Le., whether feeding the young of a species milk of the same species confers an advantage over a substitute derived from milk of another species), we are still largely reduced to the old teleological arguments: the milk of a species is appropriate for the growth of the young of that species, therefore, growth and develop...

Beyond its nutritional aspects, human milk contains several bioactive compounds, such as microbes, oligosaccharides, and other substances, which are involved in host-microbe interactions and have a key role in infant health. New techniques have increased our understanding of milk microbiota composition, but few data on the activity of bioactive compounds and their biological role in infants are...

Milk is traditionally recognized as an excellent source of nutrients and milk proteins constitute up to 20% of the average food protein intake in the United States and Europe. The dairy industry provides a range of high quality traditional dairy products but is also very interested in the development of new generation, dairy-based nutraceutical and functional foods. Milk components, because of ...

One IO-day experiment in autumn 1994 then four lo-day experiments throughout the 1994195 lactation in a complete Latin square investigated the effect of pasture species on yield, composition and total colour of milk from dairy cows. Treatments were Grasslands Kopu white clover (Trifolium repens L.), Yatsyn1 perennial ryegrass (L&urn perenne L.), Grasslands Kahu timothy (Phfeum pratense L.) and ...

To evaluate the effects of the pelleting and the addition of sodium monensin on production, the chemical and lipid composition of milk and butter physical characteristics, 4 Holstein dairy cows (135 days of lactation) with an average milk production of 14.7 kg/d, were supplemented with a concentrate containing ground canola seeds. The cows were assigned to a 4×4 Latin square design with a 2×2 f...

1. A comparison was made of the composition of milk from front and rear tetas in four sows. There were small and not significant differences in fat, protein and lactose contents, and in the fatty-acid composition of the milk fat with the exception of the 18:3 acid where the difference was also small but significant. 2. The effects of intravenous infusions of glucose and insulin in lactating sow...

AIM Lipids are the main source of calories and considered very important in infant growth. We aimed to compare fatty acid composition of term and preterm breast milk. This is the first study that compares the fatty acid levels of preterm and term breast milk in Turkish women. MATERIALS AND METHODS Breast milk samples were obtained from mothers of term (n = 15) and preterm (n = 15) infants on ...

Yield and composition of milk and growth of nursing pigs in response to dietary treatment were estimated from 25 lactating sows during a 22-d period. Eight sows were fed 6 kg/d of a corn-soybean control diet (C sows). Nine were fed the control diet in which approximately 6.5 g X kg body weight (BW-1) X d-1 of carbohydrate was supplied by fructose corn syrup (F sows) and eight were fed the contr...