Integrating Population Outcomes, Biological Mechanisms and Research Methods in the Study of Human Milk and Lactation [Paperback]

Integrating Population Outcomes, Biological Mechanisms and Research Methods in the Study of Human Milk and Lactation is the product of the 10th Conference of the International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation, held on September 15-19, 2000, in Tucson, Arizona. The presented sessions at the meeting are as diverse as the volume itself. These sessions include the impact of micronutrient deficiencies during lactation on maternal and infant health, the premature infant, developmental immunology, breastfeeding in the industrialized world, and viral transmission in milk. Whenever possible, the sessions were organized to include human population research, research showing the biological underpinnings of the effects on human health, and important methodological issues. This volume is a contemporary and influential tool for human milk biologists, breastfeeding epidemiologists, biochemists, immunologists, clinical specialists, and all professionals and researchers in the field.The Secretory Immunoglobulin System: Regulation and Biological Significance; P. Brandtzaeg. The Milky Way: from Mammary Gland to Milk to Newborn Macy-Gy?rgy Award Presentation (1999); M. Hamosh. A Half-Century Inquiry into the Immunobiology of Human Milk Macy-Gy?rgy Award Presentation (2000); A.S. Goldman. Section I: The Impact of Micronutrient Deficiencies during Lactation On Maternal and Infant Health. Vitamin A and the Nursing Mother-Infant Dyad: Evidence for Intervention; R. Stoltzfus. Diarrhea, Growth and Feeding in Developing World; S. Zaman. Impact of Maternal Vitamin B-12 Deficiency during Lactation On Maternal and Infant Health; L. Allen. Zinc Requirements for Breastfed Infants; N. Krebs. Section II: The Premature Infant. Breastfeeding and Cognitive Outcomes among Premature Infants; R. Morley. The Role of Human Milk I Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC); M. Caplan. The Effect of Stress on Lactation - Its Significl&