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Bovine Lactoferrin Modulates Dendritic Cell Differentiation and Function.
Nutrients - 29 Jun 2018
Perdijk Olaf, van Neerven R J Joost, van den Brink Erik, Savelkoul Huub F J, Brugman Sylvia
Abstract excerpt
Lactoferrin is an abundant glycoprotein in bovine milk that has immunomodulatory effects on human cells. Bovine lactoferrin (LF) binds lipopolysaccharides (LPS) with high affinity and is postulated to act via TLR4-dependent and -independent mechanisms. It has been shown that LF modulates differentiation of human monocytes into tolerogenic dendritic cells. However, in a previous study, we showed that LPS also...
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