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Bovine Colostrum - General Benefits

Bovine colostrum offers broad-spectrum benefits for wide-ranging ailments. Medical Journalist Report of Innovative Biologics: Townsend Letters for Doctors and Patients. Walker M. (1999) 74-80.

Active chromium complex from bovine colostrum help to regulate blood glucose levels. American Institute of Nutrition. 118(1):39-45.
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Antioxidant properties of colostrum. Pediatric Research. 24(1):14-9.
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Treatment of severe eye dryness and problematic eye lesions with bovine colostrum Adv Exp Med Biol. 350:595-9.
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Proline-Rich Polypeptide (PRP) Complex Isolated from Colostrum for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. A Double - Blind Placebo-Controlled Study. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis. 47(6):377-85.
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Bovine colostrum has anti-inflammatory benefits and prevents NSAID induced gut damage. Gut. 44:653-658.
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Bovine Colostrum Growth Factors

Effect of growth factors on wound healing. Journal of Surgery Res. 59:236-244.
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IGF-1 and prostate cancer.* Novartis Found Symp. 2004;262:193-9; discussion 199-204, 265-8. Review. PMID: 15562830
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*Apoptosis (AY-pup-TOE-siss)
A type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell leads to its death. This is the body’s normal way of getting rid of unneeded or abnormal cells. The process of apoptosis may be blocked in cancer cells. Also called programmed cell death. - National Cancer Institute Dictionary

Insulin and IGF-1 enhance human skeletal muscle synthesis. Journal of Clinical Investigations 96:1722-1729.
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Bovine Colostrum Immune Factors

Transfer Factors

Structural nature and functions of transfer factors. Annals New York Academy of Sciences. 685:362-8.
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Cytokines

Cytokines useful in immunodeficient individuals Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents. 3:121-124.
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Cytokines effect in rheumatoid arthritis. Annual Review of Immunology 14:397-440, 1996.
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Bovine colostrum and its antibacterial effect. Infection and Immunity 57:1227-1234.
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Proline-rich polypeptide from bovine colostrum benefit the immune system. Immunology. 36:879-881.
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Proline-rich polypeptide (PRP)- from bovine colostrum has an immunomodulatory effect. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis. 41:275-279.

Proline-rich polypeptide from colostrum has immunoregulatory properties. Molecular Immunology. 12:1277-1282.
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Bovine colostrum used for wound healing in vivo. Science. 219(4590): 1329-31.
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Bovine colostrum containing antibodies to human rotavirus. Lancet. 2(8665):709-12.
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Prevention of rotavirus infection with bovine colostrum containing antibody against human rotavirus. Lancet. 2(8357):1029-30.
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Bovine colostrum to treat rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants. Journal of Infectious Diseases 156:158-166.
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Immunoglobulin components and anti-viral activities in bovine colostrum. 64:274-279.
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IgA from colostrum used to treat E coli. Scandavian Journal of Immunology. 46:59-66.
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Bovine Colostrum Intestinal

Bovine colostrum benefits the human stomach and small intestine. Gut. 44(2):212-7.
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Bovine colostrum provides passive immunity against diarrhoea. Acta Paediatr. 85:125-128.
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Treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection with oral immunoglobulins from bovine colostrum. Ailment Pharmacol Therapies 12:563-568.
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Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 177: 955-961.
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Colostrum benefits the Leaky gut of alcoholism. The Lancet. 1(8370):179-82.
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Bovine colostrum has anti-inflammatory benefits and prevents NSAID induced gut damage. Gut. 44:653-658.
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Bactericidal effect of bovine colostrum against Helicobactor pylori. Journal of Applied Bacteriology 78:655-662.
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Treatment diarrhea in AIDS patients with bovine colostrum patients. AIDS. 4:581-584.
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Bovine colostrum and its effect in the human digestive tract. ZH Mikrobiology Epidemiology Immunobiology 9:101-106.
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Bovine colostrum ameliorates diarrhea caused by E coli. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 29:452-456.
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Glyconutrient a novel immune-enhancing polysaccharide. Alternative Medicine Review. 4(2):96-103.
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Colostrums affect against herpes simplex virus. Journal of Clinical Laboratory Immunology. 1:221-224.
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Low colostral IgA associated with cow's milk allergy. Acta Pediatr Scan. 80:1207-1213.
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Protective potential of colostrum against prospective influenza viruses. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 36(2):94-5.
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Siber G. (1992) Immune globulin to prevent nosocomial infection. (Accuaired during hospitalization) New England Journal of Medicine. 327(4):269-71.
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Lactoferrin

Lactoferrin is a lipid A-binding protein. Infection and Immunity. 62:2628-2632.
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Lactoferrin and it’s functions. Lactoferrin: Structure and Function. 1-12.
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Lactoferrin shows potent activity against both human immunodeficiency virus and human cytomegalovirus replication in vitro. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 172:380-388.
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Lactoferrin is studied against human herpes virus. Jpn. Journal of Sci. Biol. 47:73-85.
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Lactoferrin markedly inhibits hepatitis C virus. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 245:549-553.
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Lactoferrin: A general review. Haematologica 3:252-267.
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Effects of bovine Lactoferrin on colon carcinoma 26 lung metastasis in mice. Clinical and Experimental Metastasis. 17:35-40. Masaaki I. and et al. (1999)

Lactoferrin in the human colon carcinoma. Biochemistry Journal. 308:391-397.
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Bovine Colostrum - Anti viral