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Preterm infants can inoculate virulent cytomegalovirus (CMV) through their mothers' raw breast milk. Complete virus inactivation is achieved only by heat treatment, but the effect on growth factors has never been assessed systematically. Insulin-like-growth-factor-1-, IGF-2-, insulin-like-growth-factor-binding-protein-2-, and IGFBP-3-concentrations were measured, before and after heating, in 51 breast-milk-samples from 28 mothers, and epidermal-growth-factor-concentrations in a subgroup of 35 samples from 22 mothers. Two heating methods were applied: Short-term (5 s) pasteurisation at 62, 65, and 72°C, and long-term Holder-Pasteurisation (30 min) at 63°C. IGF-1, IGF-2, IGFBP-2, and IGFBP-3 were measured by RIA, and EGF by ELISA. Heating for 30 min decreased significantly IGF-1 by 39.4%, IGF-2 by 9.9%, IGFBP-2 by 19.1%, and IGFBP-3 by 7.0%. In contrast, IGF-1, IGF-2, IGFBP-2, and IGFBP-3 were not altered significantly when using a short heating duration of 5 s, irrespective of the level of temperature, except for IGF-2 at 62°C for 5 s (p = 0.041) and IGFBP-2 at 72°C for 5 s (p = 0.025). Neither long- nor short-time heating methods changed the concentration of EGF. Only short heating methods (5 s, 62–72°C) can preserve, almost completely, the concentrations of IGFs in human milk, whereas Holder-Pasteurization does not.
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Abbreviations
- CMV:
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cytomegalovirus
- IGFBP:
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insulin-like growth factor binding protein
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We are indebted to Mrs Karin Weber for their invaluable help and assistance analyzing growth hormones in the laboratory of the Section of Pediatric Endocrinology, Medical Director Prof. Dr. M.B. Ranke, and to Derek Stebben for linguistic advice.
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Goelz, R., Hihn, E., Hamprecht, K. et al. Effects of Different CMV-Heat-Inactivation-Methods on Growth Factors in Human Breast Milk. Pediatr Res 65, 458–461 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181991f18
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