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Bioactive Components of Human Milk

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 501)

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Table of contents (72 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Bioactive Components of Human Milk

      • David S. Newburg
      Pages 3-10
    3. Human Milk and the Response of Intestinal Epithelium to Infection

      • Kathrin Bernt, W. Allan Walker
      Pages 11-30
    4. Drug Transport Into Milk

      • Patrick J. McNamara
      Pages 47-55
  3. Hormones and Growth Factors in Mammary Development and in Milk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. Overview: Hormones and Growth Factors

      • David S. Newburg
      Pages 59-60
    3. Is Milk a Conduit for Developmental Signals?

      • Kevin D. Nusser, L. Stephen Frawley
      Pages 71-77
    4. Regulation of Cell Apoptosis by Insulin-Like Growth Factor I

      • Darryl L. Hadsell, Ghada Abdel-Fattah
      Pages 79-85
    5. Human Milk Contains Detectable Levels of Immunoreactive Leptin

      • Robert E. Lyle, Stephen C. Kincaid, Janet C. Bryant, Audra M. Prince, Robert E. McGehee Jr.
      Pages 87-92
    6. A Low-Fat Diet but not Food Restriction Improves Lactational Performance in Obese Rats

      • Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Mary H. Wallace, Effie Gournis
      Pages 101-106
    7. Human Lactoferrin in the Milk of Transgenic Mice Increases Intestinal Growth in Ten-Day-Old Suckling Neonates

      • P. Zhang, V. Sawicki, A. Lewis, L. Hanson, J. H. Nuijens, M. C. Neville
      Pages 107-113
  4. Milk Lipids and the Milk Fat Globule

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. Overview: Milk Lipids

      • David S. Newburg
      Pages 123-124

Editors and Affiliations

  • Waltham, Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School, Shriver Center, Boston

    David S. Newburg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bioactive Components of Human Milk

  • Editors: David S. Newburg

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1371-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46653-3Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5521-2Published: 14 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1371-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 592

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Public Health, Tropical Medicine, Biochemistry, general

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