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    Milk contains many components that provide immune protection for offspring and help develop neonatal immune competence by protecting the mammary gland from pathogens. Breast milk facilitates the establishment of gut flora that inhibits pathogens while stimulating beneficial microorganisms. Maternal immunity transfers antibodies and leukocytes like T lymphocytes to the infant, passively providing protection against pathogens the mother was exposed to. Components in milk like cytokines may provide infants with a prepackaged immune response system while anti-inflammatory factors help modulate cytokine responses during infection. The various immune and immunomodulating components in milk undoubtedly interact synergistically to protect both the mammary gland and offspring from pathogens.

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    Milk contains many components that provide immune protection for offspring and help develop neonatal immune competence by protecting the mammary gland from pathogens. Breast milk facilitates the establishment of gut flora that inhibits pathogens while stimulating beneficial microorganisms. Maternal immunity transfers antibodies and leukocytes like T lymphocytes to the infant, passively providing protection against pathogens the mother was exposed to. Components in milk like cytokines may provide infants with a prepackaged immune response system while anti-inflammatory factors help modulate cytokine responses during infection. The various immune and immunomodulating components in milk undoubtedly interact synergistically to protect both the mammary gland and offspring from pathogens.

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    Milk contains many components that provide immune protection for offspring and help develop neonatal immune competence by protecting the mammary gland from pathogens. Breast milk facilitates the establishment of gut flora that inhibits pathogens while stimulating beneficial microorganisms. Maternal immunity transfers antibodies and leukocytes like T lymphocytes to the infant, passively providing protection against pathogens the mother was exposed to. Components in milk like cytokines may provide infants with a prepackaged immune response system while anti-inflammatory factors help modulate cytokine responses during infection. The various immune and immunomodulating components in milk undoubtedly interact synergistically to protect both the mammary gland and offspring from pathogens.

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    Immunological Activities Associated With Milk.: Author Information

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    Milk contains many components that provide immune protection for offspring and help develop neonatal immune competence by protecting the mammary gland from pathogens. Breast milk facilitates the establishment of gut flora that inhibits pathogens while stimulating beneficial microorganisms. Maternal immunity transfers antibodies and leukocytes like T lymphocytes to the infant, passively providing protection against pathogens the mother was exposed to. Components in milk like cytokines may provide infants with a prepackaged immune response system while anti-inflammatory factors help modulate cytokine responses during infection. The various immune and immunomodulating components in milk undoubtedly interact synergistically to protect both the mammary gland and offspring from pathogens.

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    Immunological activities associated with

    milk.
    Kelleher SL1, Lönnerdal B.

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    Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, USA.

    Abstract

    Milk contains a multitude of components that can, or may, provide immune protection to the
    suckling offspring and that also may promote development of neonatal immune competence. In
    addition, these specialized factors are essential for the protection of the mammary gland, the
    offspring's food source, from pathogen colonization and lactation failure. Breast milk also
    facilitates the establishment of a gut flora that inhibits colonization by many pathogens and
    stimulates the growth of beneficial microorganisms. Maternal immunity can be transferred to the
    infant via antibodies, primarily of the sIgA type in humans, as well as by leukocytes including
    effector and memory T lymphocytes. In this way, protection is provided passively against the
    pathogens to which the mother has been exposed. Currently, there is much interest in
    determining the protective efficacy of oral supplementation with immunoglobulins from the milk
    of lactating animals hyperimmunized against specific pathogens. An array of immunostimulatory
    components in milk, notably cytokines, may be protected against intestinal proteolysis, thereby
    providing the offspring with a prepackaged immune response system. These components may
    help to boost the infant's immature immune system. At the same time, anti-inflammatory factors
    in breast milk help to modulate cytokine responses to infection, thereby facilitating defense while
    minimizing tissue damage such as that which occurs in infants with necrotizing enterocolitis.
    Undoubtedly, the many components constituting the repertoire of immune and
    immunomodulating agents in milk interact synergistically to protect both the mammary gland
    and the offspring from invading pathogenic microorganisms.

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