
Human Milk
Sampling and Measurement of Energy-Yielding Nutrients and Other Macromolecules
Description
Key Features
- Presents analytical issues and challenges
- Contains information regarding optimal milk collection and storage procedures for each milk component
- Uses a systematic treatment of common factors relating to milk composition variation (e.g., time postpartum, maternal diet)
- Provides a brief summary at the end of each chapter
- Reviews the literature related to history/discovery, analysis, isoforms, origins/transport, variability, metabolism and research gaps
Readership
Researchers, public health experts, and industry personnel interested in human milk, maternal/infant nutrition, and health
Table of Contents
Part I The Energy-Yielding Nutrients
1. Proteins and Amino Acids in Human Milk - An Overview
2. Human Milk Lipids – An Overview
3. Regulation of Fatty Acids in Human Milk
4. Simple and Complex Carbohydrates in Human Milk
5. Alcohol in Human Milk
6. Assessing and Estimating Caloric Content of Human MilkPart II Biologically Active Macromolecules
7. Hormones and other Biologically Active Proteins in Human Milk
8. Immune Factors in Human Milk
9. Nitrate and other Forms of Nonprotein Nitrogen in Human Milk
10. MicroRNAs and Stem Cells in Human Milk
11. Milk Fat Globule Membrane Proteins in Human Milk
12. Sphingolipids, Cholesterol, and Other Minor Lipids in Human MilkPart III Methodologic Issues and Summary
13. Collection and Storage of Milk for Macronutrient and Macromolecule Analysis – An Overview
14. Measurement of Human Milk Production and Milk Intake
15. Rapid Measurement of Energy and Macronutrients in the Clinical Setting
16. Macronutrients and Macromolecules in Human Milk – Summary and Next Steps
Product details
- No. of pages: 422
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: November 22, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128157077
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128153505