Therapeutic potential of hen egg white peptides for the treatment of intestinal inflammation

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and recurring inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract; however, current pharmaceutical treatments are only moderately effective and have potential long-term toxicity, therefore novel IBD therapies are required. Hen egg white has been shown to be an ab...

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Main Authors: Maggie Lee, Jennifer Kovacs-Nolan, Tania Archbold, Ming Z. Fan, Lekh R. Juneja, Tutomu Okubo, Yoshinori Mine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2009-04-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464609000061