Milk Proteins

Introductory Remarks.- Research Funding by the EEC.- The Industry's Interest in Protein Research.- Milk Protein and Nitrogen Equilibrium.- How to Evaluate Dietary Protein.- Milk Proteins and Tissue Nitrogen Equilibrium.- The Endocrine Response to Dietary Protein: the Anabolic Drive on Growth.- Endocrine Response to Animal and Vegetable Protein.- Reliability and Limitations of the Homoarginine Method for Evaluation of Protein Digestibility in the Pig.- Lactoferrin Content in Feces in Ileostomy-operated Children Fed Human Milk.- Specificity of the Intestinal Lactoferrin Receptor.- The Effects of Quantity and Type of Dietary Protein on the Rehabilitation after a Period of Energetic Undernourishment.- General Discussion: Milk Protein and Nitrogen Equilibrium.- Milk Proteins and Ligands.- Milk Proteins and Metabolic Requirements of Trace Elements, Minerals, and Vitamins.- Manganese Absorption from Human Milk, Cow Milk, and Infant Formulas.- Intrinsic Labelling of Iron in Milk.- Does Bovine Lactoferrin Resist Absorption in the Small Intestine of Neonatal and Adult Pigs?.- Can Lactoferrin Supplementation Improve the Availability of Iron from Milk?.- The Nutritive Value of Bovine Lactoferrin.- General Discussion: Milk Proteins and Ligands.- Milk Proteins: Structural and Genetic Aspects.- Structure and Variability of Milk Proteins.- Modification of Milk by Gene Transfer.- Analysis of Protein Structure in Solution by Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy: 2D-1H NMR Investigation of Ribonuclease T1 and Its Complexes with 2?- and 3?-Guanosine Monophosphates.- Bioactive Sequences in Milk Proteins.- Isolation and Chemical Characterization of a Phosphopeptide from In Vivo Digests of Casein.- Expression of an ?s1-Casein cDNA-Clone in a Cell-free and Procaryote Model System.- HeatStability of Milk with Increased Whey Protein Content.- Ultrastructural Characterization of High Molecular Weight Milkfat Globule Membrane Glycoproteins.- Colostrum as a Source of Antibodies.- Expression of the