Following Hippocrates' advice 'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food': An alternative method for evaluation of the immunostimulatory potential of food proteins

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 712-713

  Biziulevičius, Gediminas A ^a   Kazlauskaite, Jurgita ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILK PROTEIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOLYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; DIETARY PROTEINS; HUMANS;

EID: 33845960577     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.09.001     Document Type: Letter

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