An ancillary study of participants in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial suggests that ingestion of bovine lactoferrin promotes expression of interferon alpha in the human colon

An ancillary study of participants in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial suggests that ingestion of bovine lactoferrin promotes expression of interferon alpha in the human colon

Studies using animal models have demonstrated that ingestion of bovine lactoferrin (bLF) is able to induce cytokine expression in the intestine and inhibit carcinogenesis in the colon and other organs of experimental animals. Consequently, a clinical trial was conducted in the National Cancer Center...

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Main Authors: David B. Alexander, Masaaki Iigo, Hirokazu Hamano, Takahiro Kozu, Yutaka Saito, Daizo Saito, Tadao Kakizoe, Jiegou Xu, Koji Yamauchi, Mitsunori Takase, Masumi Suzui, Hiroyuki Tsuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-09-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
Subjects:
Ingestion of bovine lactoferrin
Human interferon alpha
Human intestine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464614002278

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