Colostrum and milk provide a complete diet for the neonate. In ruminants, colostrum is also the sole source of initial acquired immunity for the offspring. Milk therefore plays an important role in mammalian host defense. In colostrum, the concentration of immunoglobulins is particularly high, with IgG being the major immunoglobulin class present in ruminant milk, in contrast to IgA being the m...

Mature skim milk cultures of Streptococcus lactis var. maltigenes were steam distilled at low temperature under reduced pressure. Ethyl ether extracts were prepared from the distillates and analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Twenty of 31 components detected in the culture distillates were identified positively and 11 tentatively, whereas 10 of 19 components detected in...

milk and dairy products are important components of a balanced diet. milk does have distinct physicochemical, biological and microbial characteristics. the bacterial contamination of milk not only reduces the nutritional quality but its consumption threatens health of the society. in this study, 100 pasteurized milk samples were collected randomly from tabriz city, northwestern and were analyze...

that can infect the large intestine and cause amoebiasis, an illness responsible for at least 100,000 deaths annually worldwide. The capacity of human milk to kill amoebas6,15 and the amoebicidal action of secretory immunoglobulin type A (sIgA)16 have been reported. However, it is unknown which other components of milk are amoebicides. As milk contains several microbicidal components, we fracti...

Functionally and physiologically active peptides are produced from several food proteins during gastrointestinal digestion and fermentation of food materials with lactic acid bacteria. Once bioactive peptides (BPs) are liberated, they exhibit a wide variety of physiological functions in the human body such as gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, and nervous systems. These functi...

We have reported that soybean milk is an excellent source for increasing bone mineral density (BMD) and mechanical bone strength. However, it is not known what kind of components in soybean milk affect bone metabolism. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to find the effective components in soybean milk on bone metabolism. It might be some peptide in soybean milk. Therefore, in this study...

background: although lowering of food cholesterol is an effective way to reduce blood cholesterol, but recently some effective health and bioactivity characteristics of the milk fat components have been identified, so by decreasing the use of milk fat, an important source of fat-soluble vitamins and bioactive components of milk is limited. recent studies have shown that the growth of lactic aci...