Protecting Infants through Human Milk Advancing the Scientific Evidence

Protecting Infants through Human Milk: Advancing the Scientific Evidence provides a forum in which basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, and policy makers exchange the latest findings regarding the effects of human milk and breastfeeding on infant and maternal health, thereby fostering new...

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Other Authors: Pickering, Larry K. (Editor), Morrow, Ardythe L. (Editor), Ruiz-Palacios, Guillermo M. (Editor), Schanler, Richard J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
Series:Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Section I Introduction and Special Sessions
  • Section II Science and Policy: Optimal Duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding
  • Section III Breastfeeding from the Mother’s Perspective
  • Section IV Innate and Acquired Immune Systems of Human Milk
  • Section V Risk of Viral Transmission by Breastfeeding
  • Section VI Cellular and Molecular Biology of Mammary Gland Development and Lactation
  • Section VII Extended Abstracts
  • Author Index