The immune system of breast milk: Antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 743, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-137

  Lepage, Philippe ^a   Van De Perre, Philippe ^b  

^a HOP UNIV DES ENFANTS REINE FABIOLA   (Belgium)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CYTOKINE; FATTY ACID; HORMONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; LACTOFERRIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; LYSOZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SECRETORY COMPONENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BREAST MILK; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFANT NUTRITION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 84859894038     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2251-8_9     Document Type: Article

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