Infant Maturity at Birth Reveals Minor Differences in the Maternal Milk Metabolome in the First Month of Lactation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human milk is the gold standard of nutrition for infants, providing both protective and essential nutrients. Although much is known about milk from mothers giving birth to term infants, less is known about milk from mothers giving birth to premature infants. In addition, little is known about the composition and diversity of small molecules in these milks and how they change over the first month of lactation.

Objective

The objective was to understand how milk metabolites vary over the first month of lactation in mothers giving birth to term and preterm infants.

Methods

(1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics was used to characterize metabolites that were present in micromolar to molar concentrations in colostrum (day 0-5 postpartum), transition m

SUBMITTER: Spevacek AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4516766 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature