Abstract
Experiments were performed to find out whether it is possible to formulate a mixture of individual proteins from cow's milk which is more similar to human milk than presently available commercial breast milk substitutes. This was made possible by large-scale fractionation of bovine whey proteins and by mixing the latter with casein to obtain a protein mixture similar to that of breast milk. Our results indicate that the use of a rat growth assay for this purpose may be misleading and that the results of such evaluations should be interpreted with extreme caution.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 536-538 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Pediatrics |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 1979 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Evaluation of breast milk and breast milk substitutes on growing rats. / Forsum, E.; Lonnerdal, B.
In: Pediatrics, Vol. 64, No. 4, 1979, p. 536-538.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AB - Experiments were performed to find out whether it is possible to formulate a mixture of individual proteins from cow's milk which is more similar to human milk than presently available commercial breast milk substitutes. This was made possible by large-scale fractionation of bovine whey proteins and by mixing the latter with casein to obtain a protein mixture similar to that of breast milk. Our results indicate that the use of a rat growth assay for this purpose may be misleading and that the results of such evaluations should be interpreted with extreme caution.
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