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Biological and Clinical Significance of the Gut as a Barrier to Penetration of Macromolecules

Practical Implications with Respect to Breast Feeding

Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, Calif. 92717

This review stresses the importance of the gut as an immunologic organ, and describes those factors in the gut which impede penetration of potentially harmful macromolecules, particularly the secretory IgA system. Because of the immaturity of this gut function in the young infant, breast feeding should be encouraged for the first six to nine months of life whenever possible.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 15, No. 8, 731-734 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/000992287601500809


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