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Bioactive lipids in milk
Dhankhar, J1, Sharma, R2, Indumathi, K.P3.
Milk fat represents a significant source of nutrition and energy for humans stimulating extensive
investigations dominating recent health concerns even at micro levels by bio-scientists. Despite
its longstanding association with health, the current researches are directed at number of
beneficial components like bioactive lipids and fat soluble vitamins. Bioactive lipids in milk
include triglycerides, diglycerides, monoglycerides associated with beneficial fatty acids like
short chain, medium chain, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids.
These can prove as potential diagnostic tools for reckoning chronic diseases like cancers,
diabetes, inflammation, and CVD (Cardiovascular disease). The minor lipid components like
phospholipids, sterols, ether lipids also carry biological and health promoting activities. Butyric
acid plays important role in controlling cell growth, differentiation and preventing tumor
genesis in colon cells. Fat-soluble vitamins (A and E) in milk fat are involved in antioxidant
and tumor suppressing activities. CLA has been shown to play important role in inhibition
of carcinogenesis and atherosclerosis as well as immune stimulation in different studies on
animals. Furthermore, phospholipids like sphingolipids and their active metabolites, ceramides
and sphingosines had exhibited effective antibacterial properties, anti carcinogenic and immune
stimulation properties. The current information on bioactive lipid components in milk lipids in
promoting health and preventing disease has been summarized in the paper.
Affiliation:
- National Dairy Research Institute, India
- National Dairy Research Institute, India
- National Dairy Research Institute, India
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