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β-casomorphins: Do They Have Physiological Significance?

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Milk represents an essential food for the newborn mammal. In addition to nutrients milk contains a variety of important materials, e.g. substances with immunological relevance1 and a considerable number of hormones whose physiological significance is not yet clearly understood.2

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  1. Rudolf Buchheim-Institut für Pharmakologie, Justus Liebig-Universität, Frankfurter Str. 107, D-6300, Gießen, Germany

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Teschemacher, H. (1987). β-casomorphins: Do They Have Physiological Significance?. In: Goldman, A.S., Atkinson, S.A., Hanson, L.Å. (eds) Human Lactation 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0837-7_24

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