This is information posted on the web site of Lund University in Sweden re
their research on breastmilk and cancer. 

Anne Brooks, RN,BN,IBCLC New Brunswick, Canada 

 Apoptosis induced by human
 milk components

 Apoptos inducerad av humana
 mjölkkomponenter
 Svanborg, Catharina; Håkansson, Anders; Hall,
 Malin

 Department of Laboratory
 Medicine/Microbiology,Immunology and
 Glycobiology
 Sölvegatan 23, 223 62 Lund
 Tel: 046-173972, Fax: 046-137468
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 The aims of this project are: (1) to characterize
 the apoptosis-inducing molecules in human milk,
 (2) to study the interactions of these components
 with the host cells, (3) to elucidate the cellular
 activation mechanisms which results in apoptosis
 and the difference between resistant and sensitive
 epithelial cells, and (4) to evaluate the anti-tumor
 effect in vivo using tumor bearing mice.
 Importance: Results so far demonstrate that
 human milk contains factors which induces
 apoptosis in immature cells and tumor cells but
 not in mature, normal cells. The research may
 help understand the biological effects of human
 milk in the gastro-intestinal tract and elucidate
 some differences between normal and tumor
 cells.

 This page was last uppdated 1998-12-18 


                                          

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