TY - JOUR
T1 - High levels of growth factors in human breast milk
AU - Kobata, Ritsuyo
AU - Tsukahara, Hirokazu
AU - Ohshima, Yusei
AU - Ohta, Naoko
AU - Tokuriki, Shuko
AU - Tamura, Satoshi
AU - Mayumi, Mitsufumi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the lactating women who were hospitalized at Kasuga Ladies' Clinic in Fukui, Japan for kindly providing breast milk samples to us. This work was supported by research grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Morinaga Foundation.
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - We found very high concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor, hepatic growth factor, and epidermal growth factor in early breast milk samples obtained from healthy mothers of term infants. This is the first report of simultaneous measurements of three major gastrointestinal trophic substances in human milk.
AB - We found very high concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor, hepatic growth factor, and epidermal growth factor in early breast milk samples obtained from healthy mothers of term infants. This is the first report of simultaneous measurements of three major gastrointestinal trophic substances in human milk.
KW - Epidermal growth factor;
KW - Hepatic growth factor;
KW - Human milk;
KW - Vascular endothelial growth factor
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U2 - 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.07.005
DO - 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.07.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 17716837
AN - SCOPUS:37549023045
SN - 0378-3782
VL - 84
SP - 67
EP - 69
JO - Early Human Development
JF - Early Human Development
IS - 1
ER -
