... Nutritive proteins Bioactive proteins Bioactive peptides Infants Breastmilk Lactoferrin Immunoglobulins • Protein intake of breastfed term infants has been used as a model to estimate protein requirements during the first year. They are higher during the first months when daily weight gain...

... activity on neutrophils. After returning to the participants’ habitual diet (1 week after the end of the experimental diet), we observed a significant decrease in the mean level of circulating immune complexes. Concentrations of plasma immunoglobulins remained unchanged throughout the study. Conclusions...

... with hypercholesterolemia received a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet during 6 months. At baseline and after the treatment period, we determined a lipoprotein profile and some immune characteristics: immunoglobulins G, A and M; complement components (C3, C4 and factor B), and blood lymphocyte subsets (CD3, CD4 and CD8...