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Olle Hernell

Bo Lönnerdal

Patrik Strömberg

Birgitta Olsson

Lennart Hansson

Lennart Gustav Lundberg

Sven Bergstr&ouml;m

Catharina Tennefors

Lennart Svensson

Mats Str&ouml;mqvist

Kristina Timdahl

Maria Öhman

Marten Vågerö

Susanne Lindquist

Lars-Börje Sjöberg

Jan T&ouml;rnell

Sven Bergstrom

Mats Stromqvigt

Jan Tornell

Lennart Hanson

Karin Hjalmarsson

Maria ÖHman

Mårten Vagerö

A nutritional composition having a total energy content of 67 kcal/100 ml or lower and including: a protein content which is 1.25 g/100 ml or lower, an energy content from protein of 7.2-8.4% of the total energy content of the nutritional composition, an energy content from fat which is at least 49% or more of the total energy content of the nutritional composition, a medium chain fatty acid content comprising 8 to 10 carbons which is less than 3 wt % of total amount of fatty acids, a sialic acid content of 10-25 mg/100 ml, a cholesterol content of 5-10 mg/100 ml, and a sphingomyelin content of 9-15 mg/100 ml is disclosed.

Nutritional composition

The present invention concerns the field of nutritional compositions and concerns a nutritional composition, especially an infant formula containing whey protein/milk protein concentrate solids rich in phospholipids, rich in MFGM for use in the prophylaxis and prevention of infectious morbidity, especially otitis. At the same time the use of antipyretics has diminished.

Prophylactic use for prevention of infections

It provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprising antagonists to the protein Bile Salt-Stimulated Lipase (BSSL) for the prevention, prophylaxis and treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. It further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising BSSL antagonists and their use in methods for the prevention, prophylaxis and treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Suitable BSSL antagonists to be used according to the invention are BSSL antibodies.

Methods for treating juvenile arthritis with ant-bile salt-stimulated lipase (BSSL) antibodies

The present invention relates to a method to increase the absorption by a human infant of at least one unsaturated fatty acid, said method comprising the enteral administration to said infant of recombinant human bile-salt-stimulated lipase (rhBSSL). In another aspect the invention also relates to a method to improve the visual and/or cognitive development of a human infant, said method comprising the enteral administration to said infant of rhBSSL. Such methods have particular utility for preterm human infants, particular those in medical need of increasing their absorption of or availability to such unsaturated fatty acids. In further aspects, the invention relates to kits, packaged-pharmaceutical-products, recombinant human bile-salt-stimulated lipase and pharmaceutical compositions, in each case useful for increasing the absorption by a human infant of at least one unsaturated fatty acid, or for increasing the visual and/or cognitive development of a human infant.

Method to increase the absorption of unsaturated fatty acids by human infants

The present invention relates to a method to increase the growth velocity of a human infant, said method comprising the enteral administration to said infant of recombinant human bile-salt-stimulated lipase (rhBSSL). Such method has particular utility for underweight or preterm human infants, particular those in medical need of increasing their growth velocity. The invention also relates to compositions, including infant feeds, kits, packaged-pharmaceutical-products and pharmaceutical compositions, and also to methods to prepare infant feeds. In another aspect, the present invention relates to methods to: (X) protect the small bowel mucosa of a human infant from damage; to (Y) protect an immature intestinal epithelium of a human infant from the deleterious effects of incompletely digested and/or excess fat and/or lipid; and/or to (Z) limit accumulation of incompletely digested and/or excess fat and/or lipid in the ileum of a human infant; said methods in each case comprising the step of enteral administration of rhBSSL.

Method to increase the growth velocity of human infants

Methods for treating rheumatoid arthritis with anti-bile salt-stimulated lipase (BSSL) antibodies

DNA encoding human &kgr; casein and process for obtaining the protein

The present invention relates to an expression system comprising a DNA sequence encoding a polypeptide which ha a biological activity of human &kgr;-casein, the system comprising a 5&prime;-flanking sequence capable of mediating expression of said DNA sequence. In preferred embodiments the 5&prime;-flanking sequence is from a milk protein gene of a mammal such as a casein gene or whey acidic protein (WAP) gene and the DNA sequence contains at least one intron sequence. The invention further relates to DNA sequences, replicable expression vectors and cells harboring said vectors, recombinant polypeptide e.g. in glycosylated form, and milk, infant formula or nutrient supplement comprising recombinant polypeptide. The invention also relates to a method for producing a transgenic non-human mammal comprising injecting an expression system as defined above and optionally a further DNA encoding &bgr;-casein or an analog, variant or subsequence thereof into a fertilized egg or a cell of an embryo of a mammal so as to incorporate the expression system into the germline of the mammal and developing the resulting injected fertilized egg or embryo into an adult female mammal. In one embodiment, the endogenous polypeptide expressing capability of the mammal is destroyed and/or replaced with the expression system defined above. The invention further relates to a transgenic non-human mammal such as a mouse, rat, rabbit, goat, sheep, pig, lama, camel or bovine species whose germ cells a somatic cells contain a DNA sequence as defined above as a result of chromosomal incorporation into the non-human mammalian genome, or into the genome of an ancestor of said non-human mammal.

Transgenic non-human mammal expressing the DNA sequence encoding kappa casein mammary gland and milk

The present invention relates to a DNA sequence encoding the human milk protein .beta.-casein or an analogue or variant thereof which has either the calcium binding activity of human .beta.-casein, or opioid activity, or angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity, or a combination of any two or three of these activities. The DNA sequence may optionally contain one or more intron sequences and permissive RNA splice signals. The DNA sequence is used in the production of recombinant human .beta.-casein, advantageously by means of production in transgenic non-human mammals such as bovine species. In one embodiment, the DNA sequence is inserted into a milk protein gene of a mammal such as a whey acidic protein (WAP) gene. The main use of the recombinant human .beta.-casein is as a constituent of infant formulae. It is contemplated that the recombinant human .beta.-casein provides a substantial improvement of the nutritional and biological value of the formulae in that a closer similarity to human milk is obtained.

Human .beta.-casein, process for producing it and use thereof

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Olle Hernell