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Decoding breast milk oligosaccharides
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2014 Oligosaccharides represent a significant fraction of breast milk, reaching up to 20 g/l in early milk. Human milk oligosaccharides comprise close to 200 structures, which are not absorbed by the intestinal tissue and have no nutritional value for ...
Thierry Hennet +2 more
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Human milk oligosaccharides as prebiotics
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2023 Based on its richness in immune-related components such as human milk, human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), milk proteins, and lipids, breast milk can be considered the first functional food that humans encounter in their lifetime.
Gozde Okburan, Serap Kızıler
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Milk oligosaccharides: A review [PDF]
International Journal of Dairy Technology, 2015 Milk oligosaccharides (OSs) confer unique health benefits to the neonate. Although human digestive enzymes cannot degrade these sugars, they support specific commensal microbes and act as decoys to prevent the adhesion of pathogenic micro‐organisms to gastrointestinal cells.
Oliveira, Diana +3 more
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Milk Oligosaccharide Variation in Sow Milk and Milk Oligosaccharide Fermentation in Piglet Intestine [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2016 Porcine milk oligosaccharides (PMOs) were analyzed in six colostrum and two mature milk samples from Dutch Landrace sows. In total, 35 PMOs were recognized of which 13 were new for the PMO literature: neutral HexNAc-Hex, β4'-galactosyllactose, putative GalNAc(α/β1-3)Gal(β1-4)Glc, lacto-N-fucopentaose-II, lacto-N-tetraose, galactose substituted lacto-N ...
Difilippo, Elisabetta +7 more
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Food Science of Animal Resources, 2022 The bioactive functions of oligosaccharides from human milk have been reported by many studies. Many of oligosaccharides isolated from colostrum and/or milk of dairy animals have been reported to have similar chemical structures with those in human ...
Epi Taufik +4 more
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Microorganisms, 2023 Breastfeeding is essential in the first months of a newborn’s life. Breast milk is a source of crucial macronutrients, prebiotic oligosaccharides, and potential probiotic strains of bacteria.
Daniela Mollova +3 more
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Milk Oligosaccharides and Metabolism in Infants [PDF]
Advances in Nutrition, 2012 Since the discovery of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) >60 y ago, research has faced major challenges including (i) the development of methods to identify and characterize these components, (ii) the need to use HMO fractions for functional studies because single HMO were not available, (iii) the uncertainty of the purity of HMO fractions that were ...
Silvia, Rudloff, Clemens, Kunz
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Unusual free oligosaccharides in human bovine and caprine milk
Scientific Reports, 2022 Free oligosaccharides are abundant macronutrients in milk and involved in prebiotic functions and antiadhesive binding of viruses and pathogenic bacteria to colonocytes.
Wei-Chien Weng +8 more
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Conformational analysis of the milk oligosaccharides [PDF]
Biopolymers, 1980 AbstractPossible conformations of lacto‐N‐tetraose, lacto‐N‐neotetraose, related disaccharides, and other milk oligosaccharides have been studied by an energy‐minimization procedure using empirical potential functions. Lacto‐N‐tetraose favors a “curved” conformation, while lacto‐N‐neotetraose favors an approximately “straight” conformation.
Biswas, Margaret, Rao, VSR
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Research Progress in Oligosaccharides in Goat and Non-goat Milk [PDF]
Shipin KexueHuman milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), an important bioactive ingredient in breast milk, have become a popular nutritional fortifier in infant formula.
YANG Jingbo, ZHAO Jingjing, WANG Yuqi, CUI Xiuxiu, CAO Hongfang, LI Chun,, ZHANG Guofang,, LIU Libo,
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