Secretion of13C-Labelled Oligosaccharides into Human Milk and Infant's Urine after an Oral13C-Galactose Load
作者:
S. Obermeier,
S. Rudloff,
G. Pohlentz,
M.J. Lentze,
C. Kunz,
期刊:
Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
(Taylor Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 35,
issue 1-2
页码: 119-125
ISSN:1025-6016
年代: 1999
DOI:10.1080/10256019908234084
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Human milk oligosaccharides seem to play an important role in the infant's defense against bacterial and viral infections of the gastrointestinal and the urogenital tract. In this study, we investigated the influence of dietary carbohydrates on the biosynthesis of lactose and oligosaccharides in the human mammary gland and their renal excretion by the human milk-fed infant. For this purpose, a lactating woman was given 27 g galactose (Gal) containing 2 g [13C] Gal (1-13C/99%) immediately after breakfast. In the following 36 h. milk (5–10 ml) was collected before each nursing. Infant's urine was collected over a period of 24 h.13C-enrichment was measured in total milk, milk fat and protein, in the carbohydrate fraction as well as in urine by isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS). Milk carbohydrates and deproteinized urine samples were fractionated by Sephadex G25 gel nitration and further analyzed by IRMS, high performance thin layer chromatography and and high pH anion exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection (HPAEC-PAD). IRMS revealed that in milk a maximal δ13CPDBwas reached within 8h after Gal intake which then rapidly declined in the following 8h. The cumulative13C-elimination over this first peak was 6.9% of the oral13C-dose. The highest13C-enrichment was detectable in the carbohydrate fraction, mainly in lactose and neutral oligosaccharides. Compared to the enrichment of human milk, the δ13CPDBof infant's urine was delayed. In urine, the highest amount of13C was found in the Sephadex G25 fractions which mainly contained lactose, fucosyl-lactose, lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), fucosyl-LNT and difucosyl-LNT. For further characterization, individual components were separated by HPAEC-PAD and subsequently analyzed by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and IRMS. The data show, that orally applied Gal is incorporated in milk, especially in lactose and neutral oligosaccharides. Obviously, some of these components were absorbed by the infant and then excreted with urine. There, oligosaccharides may serve as analogous receptors for bacterial or viral adhesion molecules, and, hence, may prevent urogenital infections in breastfed infants.
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