✦ LIBER ✦
Serum total and free tryptophan levels in term infants fed cow's milk formula or human milk
✍ Scribed by V. Zanardo; M. D'Aquino; L. Stocchero; M. Biasiolo; G. Allegri
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 291 KB
- Volume
- 148
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6997
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✦ Synopsis
We found no significant differences in mean total and free tryptophan concentrations in sera of healthy, full-term infants fed cow's milk formula and healthy, full-term infants who were breast-fed. Serum tryptophan concentrations were measured i h after feeding when the infants were 2 and 6 days of age. In this study cow's milk formula compared favourably with human milk as primary nutrition for full-term infants, despite a two-to-three fold higher level of free tryptophan in human colostrum.