Human breast milk (HBM) is not only an indispensable source of nutrients for early human
growth and development, supplying components that support infant growth and …

Abstract α-Lactalbumin is a whey protein that constitutes approximately 22% of the proteins
in human milk and approximately 3.5% of those in bovine milk. Within the mammary gland, α …

The plasma membrane is of central importance for defining the closed volume of cells in
contradistinction to the extracellular environment. The plasma membrane not only serves as …

Background Human milk is recommended as the optimal source of nutrition for babies up to
six months of age, as it provides individualized, specific and abundant nutritional …

α-Lactalbumin (α-LA) is a small (Mr 14,200), acidic (pI 4–5), Ca2+-binding protein. α-LA is a
regulatory component of lactose synthase enzyme system functioning in the lactating …

Extensive research from large prospective cohort studies and meta-analytical investigations
over recent decades have consistently indicated that dairy foods have protective effects …

Being originally discovered as cellular recycling bins, lysosomes are today recognized as
versatile signaling organelles that control a wide range of cellular functions that are …

The review recalls the importance of breast milk and deepens the theme of human milk
banking, a virtuous reality that is expanding all over the world but is still little known. In the …

Nanomedicine is at a crossroads: with relatively few success stories in terms of clinical
translation despite more and more research on increasingly sophisticated nanomaterials, it …

Amyloid fibrils are ordered aggregates that may be formed from disordered, partially
unfolded, and fragments of proteins and peptides. There are several diseases, which are …