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Innate protection conferred by fucosylated oligosaccharides of human milk against diarrhea in breastfed infants.
Glycobiology - 1 Mar 2004
Newburg David S, Ruiz-Palacios Guillermo M, Altaye Mekibib, Chaturvedi Prasoon, Meinzen-Derr Jareen, Guerrero Maria de Lourdes, Morrow Ardythe L
Abstract excerpt
To test the hypothesis that human milk fucosyloligosaccharides are part of an innate immune system, we addressed whether their expression (1) depends on maternal genotype and (2) protects breastfed infants from pathogens. Thus the relationship between maternal Lewis blood group type and milk oligosaccharide expression and between variable oligosaccharide expression and risk of diarrhea in their infants was...
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