Immunological properties of milk
By: edited by Bill Woodward and Harold H. Draper.
Contributors: Woodward, Bill; Draper, H. H. 1924-.
Series: Advances in nutritional research -- v. 10
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Breast milk -- Analysis.; Breastfeeding -- Immunological aspects.; Colostrum.; Lactation -- Nutritional aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Overview of the mammalian immune system / A.J. Husband; value: The immunological system in human milk: the past, a pathway to the future / Armond S. Goldman; value: Immunological activities associated with milk / Shannon L. Kelleher, Bo Lönnerdal; value: Breast milk and the risk of opportunistic infection in infancy in industrialized and non-industrialized settings / Patrick F.W. Chien, Peter W. Howie; value: Breast milk transmission of viral disease / E. Richard Stiehm, Margaret A. Keller; value: Breast milk decreases the risk of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis / Ann M. Kosloske; value: The protective properties of milk and colostrum in non-human species / Ian Tizard; value: Mammary gland defense: the role of colostrum, milk and involution secretion / Catherine M. Fetherston, Chee Seong Lee, and Peter E. Hartmann; value: Colostrum and milk in the treatment of disease / Saeed Hosseini ... [et al.]; value: The role of human milk secretory IgA in protecting infants from bacterial enteritis / Marita Noguera-Obenze, Thomas G. Cleary; value: Chemistry of milk mucins and their anti-microbial action / H. Schroten; value: Antimicrobial actions of lactoferrin / Roberta Chierici; value: The antimicrobial function of milk lipids / Charles E. Isaacs; value: The antimicrobial and immunomodulating actions of milk leukocytes / Gerd Riedel-Caspari; value: Maturation of immunocompetence in breast-fed vs. formula-fed infants; value: U.I. Dahlgren, L. Å. Hanson, E. Telemo; value: Milk components with immunomodulatory potential / Suzanne M. Filteau; value: Dietary whey proteins and immunocompetence in the post-weaning stages of life / C. W. Wong; value: Maternal modulation of specific and non-specific immune components of colostrum and mature milk / Peter E. Hartmann, Mark D. Cregan, Leon R. Mitoulas; value: Milk banking: the influence of storage procedures and subsequent processing on immunologic components of human milk / Ruth A. Lawrence.