Characterizing Immune-modulatory Components of Human Milk: The Fate and Function of Soluble CD14 and the Human Milk Metagenome

Background During the first stages of development human infants are either fed human milk or human milk substitutes (infant formulas). The composition of infant formulas and human milk differ drastically, including a difference in protein constituents and bacterial load. Due to the high global freq...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Tonya L.
Other Authors: Altosaar, Illimar
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31096
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3706