Health-promoting proteins and peptides from bovine colostrum

  Author information 1Biotechnology and Food Research MTT Agrifood Research Finland Jokioinen Finland hannu.j.korhonen@mtt.fi. Abstract The high nutritive value and diverse functional properties of milk proteins are well known. Beyond these qualities, milk proteins have attracted growing scientific and commercial interest as a source of biologically active molecules. Such proteins…

Anticancer Properties: Bovine Lactoferrin

Abstract: With the successful clinical trials, multifunctional glycoprotein bovine lactoferrin is gaining attention as a safe nutraceutical and biologic drug targeting cancer, chronic-inflammatory, viral and microbial diseases. Interestingly, recent findings that human lactoferrin oligomerizes under simulated physiological conditions signify the possible role of oligomerization in the multifunctional activities of lactoferrin…

Bovine milk antibodies for health

 Hannu Korhonen1 *, P. Marnila1 and H. S. Gill Agricultural Research Centre of Finland, Food Research, FIN-31600 Jokioinen, Finland  Milk and Health Research Centre, Massey University and New Zealand Dairy Research Institute, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand The immunoglobulins of bovine colostrum provide the major antimicrobial protection…

Immune Function

Abstract: Immune Function after exercise Strenuous and/or prolonged exercise causes transient perturbations in immune function. It is well accepted that this is one mechanism contributing to the higher occurrence of infection (e.g. upper respiratory tract infection (URTI)) in athletes, especially endurance athletes. URTI or upper respiratory tract (URT) symptoms can…

Nutriceutical bovine colostrum-Heavy Exercise

The nutriceutical bovine colostrum truncates the increase in gut permeability caused by heavy exercise in athletes. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 300: G477–G484, 2011. First published December 9, 2010; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00281.2010. —Heavy exercise causes gut symptoms and, in extreme cases, “heat stroke” partially due to increased intestinal permeability of luminal…
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