THE INTERACTION OF ANTIBACTERIAL FACTORS IN BREAST MILK
THE INTERACTION OF ANTIBACTERIAL FACTORS IN BREAST MILK
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母乳中抗菌因子的相互作用
DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-8749.1979.tb01706.x
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
A. Glynn
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作者:
M. Adinolfi;A. Glynn
PERIODICALLY, medical journals and the mass media return to questions concerning breast feeding and its effects on infant morbidity and Basically the discussion converges on two problems. The first regards the socio-economic aspects of breast feeding in either technically advanced or under-developed countries. The second, more scientifically oriented, deals with the possible mechanism of protection of the infant against bacteria and viruses provided by fresh human milk during an immunologically critical period of life. The causes of the dramatic decline in the popularity of breast feeding in countries in which infants are unlikely to receive alternative adequate nutrition have been the object of several studies7J and they will not be discussed again here. In this annotation we will summarise the results of recent investigations which have shown definitively that fresh human milk contains all the factors needed to protect the infant against bacterial and viral infections, factors such as immunoglobulins, components of complement (C), lysozyme, lactoferrin, lactoperoxidase and viable l e u ~ o c y t e s ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . In human colostrum and milk, as in other secretions such as saliva, tears, nasal and bronchial fluids, secretory IgA is the main immunoglobulin present11,12. Secretory IgA is more resistant to the proteolytic activity of gut enzymes and to acid conditions than is IgA in ~ e r u m l ~ ~ ~ . High levels of secretory IgA have been found in colostrum (near 25mg/ml), with levels declining to about 1mg/ml in milkg911J2. Antibodies against several types of bacteria have been shown to be associated with secretory IgA in including antibodies against E. coli, commonly responsible for infantile diarrhoeap~11.'2J4 . There is good evidence that such IgA antibodies are produced in the breast and are not derived from serum; furthermore, the IgA content of milk does not drop during a feed, suggesting that the breast can produce and store large quantities of this class of i m m u n ~ g l o b u l i n ~ J ~ ~ ~ ~ . In addition to IgA, colostrum and milk contain large quantities of lysozyme (LZM). In human milk, LZM may reach values near 400pg/ml, a level 3000 times higher than that detected in cows' rnilk"J6. Because it occurs widely in vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and even bacterial7, LZM is considered to be a constituent of a phylogenetically primitive mechanism of defence associated with the monocyte-macrophage system, and older than the more specific lymphocyte-immunoglobulin system. The close association of IgA and LZM in the same secretions is intriguing, and a possible interaction between them and components of complement was investigated about 15 years ago". The results of these studies showed that while complement lysis did not occur in the presence of secretory IgA alone, E. coli were lysed by complement if both specific