A Recent study suggests that immune cells like which acts directly on bacteria is found in Mother’s Breast Milk. It's known that mother's milk contains millions of cells, including a lot of immune cell types. But this appears to be the first time (INNATE LYMPHOIDAL CELLS) ILCs have been reported to be among the cell types. For the newly published study, the researchers did extensive cell analysis on fresh milk from four lactating women.
They found that Mothers milk is known to contain three known classes of
ILCs of which type 1 is the most
prevalent. Now they want to learn about what happens to ILCs once they get into
baby’s gut and how it helps in tailoring the microbiome, which ails in
digestion, infection protection and similar activities particularly with Breast
Feeding. Some immune cells like leukocytes, another white blood cell that
fights infection, increase the response of infection in milk of the mother to the
baby.
ILC’S are known to locate in tissues throughout the baby’s body, where
they appear stationary and inactive during the development, waiting for the
developed immune cells to communicate. Until then, these cells acts like cells
without soldiers simply like central command in each tissue. ILCs indeed always
ready to fight, don’t do attacking by themselves rather they act by sending the
cytokines to tell the macrophages what to do. Bhatia, who has chaired the
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition, formulas entering the
market mostly mimic the mother’s milk, including containing nutrients like Omega-3-fatty
acid, DHA, which is associated with brain development and lactoferrin, a
protein which helps in iron transport and with anti-infective properties.
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