How food-borne peptides may give rise to their immunostimulatory activities: A look through the microbiologist's window into the immunologist's garden (hypothesis)

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1009-1012

  Biziulevičius, Gediminas A ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; AUTOLYSIN; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; CASEIN; CASEIN HYDROLYSATE; LACTOFERRIN; NUTRACEUTICAL; PEPTIDE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG MECHANISM; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTAKE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIOLYSIS; DIETARY PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INTESTINES; PEPTIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 11144256314     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN20041270     Document Type: Article

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