26 results match your criteria: "Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition[Affiliation]"
Clin Nutr
June 2018
Paediatrics, Nutrition and Human Development Research Unit, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, IISPV, Reus, Spain. Electronic address:
Background: Bone mineralization can be influenced by genetic factors, hormonal status, nutrition, physical activity and body composition. The association of higher calcium (Ca) intake or Ca supplementation with better bone mineral density (BMD) remains controversial. Furthermore, it has been speculated that maintaining long-term adequate Ca intake rather than having a brief supplementation period is more effective.
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April 2018
Pediatrics, Nutrition and Development Research Unit, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, IISPV, Reus, Spain. Electronic address:
Background: In European countries, suboptimal intake has been reported for several micronutrients (as calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin B12, D and folate) in both adulthood and childhood. No studies to date have prospectively compiled nutrient intake from healthy children in different European countries using the same methodology.
Aim: To describe the adequacy of micronutrient intake during the first eight years of life in children from 5 European countries.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis
September 2016
Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University of Munich Medical Centre, Munich, Germany.
Background And Aims: The double-blind randomized European Childhood Obesity Project (CHOP) demonstrated that reduced protein content in infant formula leads to a lower body mass index (BMI) up to six years of age. Here we aimed at assessing pre-peritoneal fat, a marker of visceral fat, in children participating in the CHOP trial.
Methods And Results: Healthy term formula-fed infants in five European countries were randomized either to higher (n = 550) or lower (n = 540) protein formulas in the first year of life.
Front Immunol
March 2015
Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam , Netherlands.
Beneficial effects of breastfeeding are well-recognized and include both immediate neonatal protection against pathogens and long-term protection against allergies and autoimmune diseases. Although several proteins have been identified to have anti-viral or anti-bacterial effects like secretory IgA or lactoferrin, the mechanisms of immune modulation are not fully understood. Recent studies identified important beneficial effects of glycans in human milk, such as those expressed in oligosaccharides or on glycoproteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrit Rev Food Sci Nutr
July 2016
i Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen , The Netherlands.
A systematic review relevant to the following research questions was conducted (1) the extent to which different theoretical frameworks have been applied to food risk/benefit communication and (2) the impact such food risk/benefit communication interventions have had on related risk/benefit attitudes and behaviors. Fifty four papers were identified. The analysis revealed that (primarily European or US) research interest has been relatively recent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Inflamm (Lond)
August 2014
Airways Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a rare but known cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The role of inflammatory cytokines in the progression of ARDS in TB patients is unknown.
Objectives: In this study we investigated the possible link between the levels of inflammatory cytokines in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in patients with TB or ARDS alone or in patients with TB-induced ARDS (ARDS + TB).
J Nutr Biochem
February 2014
A. I. Virtanen Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio FI-70211, Finland; Department of Neurology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio FI-70211, Finland. Electronic address:
Dietary fish oil, providing n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids like eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), associates with reduced dementia risk in epidemiological studies and reduced amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer mouse models. We now studied whether additional nutrients can improve the efficacy of fish oil in alleviating cognitive deficits and amyloid pathology in APPswe/PS1dE9 transgenic and wild-type mice. We compared four isocaloric (5% fat) diets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
October 2014
Department of Pediatrics, The Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands ; Department of Immunology, Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Innate immune responses elicited upon virus exposure are crucial for the effective eradication of viruses, the onset of adaptive immune responses and for establishing proper immune memory. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is responsible for a high disease burden in neonates and immune compromised individuals, causing severe lower respiratory tract infections. During primary infections exuberant innate immune responses may contribute to disease severity.
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August 2013
Danone Research Centre for Specialised Nutrition, The Netherlands.
Br J Nutr
January 2014
Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Singapore, Singapore.
Obese individuals have more (hyperplastic) and larger (hypertrophic) adipocytes in their white adipose tissue (WAT) than normal-weight individuals. The difference in cell number emerges early in childhood, suggesting that this is a critical period for being susceptible to obesity. Breast-feeding has been shown to be protective against obesity, and we have previously shown in mice that the physical structure of lipids in human milk may contribute to this protective effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman milk is generally accepted as the best nutrition for newborns and has been shown to support the optimal growth and development of infants. On the basis of scientific insights from human-milk research, a specific mixture of nondigestible oligosaccharides has been developed, with the aim to improve the intestinal microbiota in early life. The mixture has been extensively studied and has been shown to be safe and to have potential health benefits that are similar to those of human milk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarly-life programming is becoming an established concept that states that the environment during early development affects health and disease in adulthood, probably via epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation, histone modifications, RNA silencing, or a combination. Accumulating evidence suggests that nutrition during pregnancy and early postnatal life is one of the most important environmental cues that programs microbiological, metabolic, and immunologic development. The neonatal period is crucial for the early microbial colonization of the almost sterile gastrointestinal tract of the newborn infant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Clin Nutr
August 2013
Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Immunology Platform, Wageningen, Netherlands.
The WHO refers to human milk as the nutritional gold standard for term infants. Human milk contains many immunomodulatory compounds, including oligosaccharides. Human-milk oligosaccharides can serve as prebiotics because the nondigestible oligosaccharides present in human milk show a clear bifidogenic effect on the gut microbiota.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Clin Nutr
August 2013
Danone Research–Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Friedrichsdorf, Germany.
Human milk contains complex carbohydrates that are important dietary factors with multiple functions during early life. Several aspects of these glycostructures are human specific; some aspects vary between lactating women, and some change during the course of lactation. This review outlines how variability of complex glycostructures present in human milk is linked to changing infants' needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurr Pharm Des
August 2012
Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
The so-called hygiene hypothesis is, at least in part, accountable for the increase in allergic diseases in the developed countries. Although there is support for one of its primary predictions that host-microbe interactions in early life have longterm effects on the development of disease across populations, the theory has already proven to be imperfect as many more recent increases in certain diseases cannot be explained by the hygiene hypothesis. Nevertheless, many research groups are interested in the host-microbe interactions and are exploring the use of "live micro-organisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit to the host" (probiotics) and "selectively fermented ingredients that result in specific changes, in the composition and/or activity of the gastrointestinal microbiota, thus conferring benefit(s) upon host health" (prebiotics) to reduce the allergic disease onset or clinical outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Pharmacol
September 2011
Department of Immunology, Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Breast feeding is considered as the best nutrition for growth and development of an infant. Human milk consists of a unique combination of nutritional components each with different characteristics. Oligosaccharides or non-digestible carbohydrates as one of these components, are generally accepted to have a beneficial effect by selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or a limited number of bacterial species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppetite
December 2011
Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition, 6704 PH Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Infant feeding is a challenging and intricate process. Food intake is shaped by prior experience of flavours derived from the maternal diet in utero and via human milk, by ongoing experience of foods eaten during the first years of life including the variety, types and frequency of foods offered. The ways in which parents interact with their children including the way foods are presented, the emotional context they cultivate and the feeding practices they use can influence their children's eating habits, either positively or negatively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVirol J
March 2011
Danone Research Centre for Specialised Nutrition, P,O, Box 7005, 6700 CA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Background: Rotaviruses are the single most important cause of severe diarrhea in young children worldwide. The current study was conducted to assess whether colostrum containing rotavirus-specific antibodies (Gastrogard-R®) could protect against rotavirus infection. In addition, this illness model was used to study modulatory effects of intervention on several immune parameters after re-infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Microbiol
February 2011
Gastrointestinal Research Unit, Departments of Gastroenterology and Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Intestinal microbiota may play a role in the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In this case-control study, mucosa-associated small intestinal and faecal microbiota of IBS patients and healthy subjects were analysed using molecular-based methods. Duodenal mucosal brush and faecal samples were collected from 37 IBS patients and 20 healthy subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPediatr Res
December 2010
Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition, 6704 PH Wageningen, The Netherlands.
This study investigates whether improved quality of nutrients during early postnatal life has effects on adult metabolic profile and body composition in a murine model of nutritional programming. Male offspring of C57Bl/6j dams received a diet containing 21% energy (En%) as fat of either 100% vegetable oils [control (CTRL)] or 80% vegetable oils/20% tuna fish oil [rich in n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LCP)] from postnatal day (PN) 2 to 42. Subsequently, mice of both experimental groups were switched to a western style diet (WSD; 21 En% fat, high saturated fatty acid [FA] content, and cholesterol) until dissection at PN98.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Nutr
December 2010
Danone Research Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
In Europe, the species Lactobacillus rhamnosus is currently on the Qualified Presumption of Safety list used by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for internal safety assessment, but according to the EFSA the species should remain a topic of surveillance. In the present study, the safety and tolerance of the potentially probiotic strain L. rhamnosus PRSF-L477 was investigated in a placebo-controlled double-blind volunteer trial following FAO/WHO guidelines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt Immunopharmacol
May 2010
Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The immune-modulatory effect of specific prebiotic oligosaccharides was shown in previous preclinical and clinical studies. To enhance the understanding of this effect, kinetic aspects of immune modulation and the correlation between microbiological and immunological parameters were investigated in a murine vaccination model. C57BL/6 mice were supplemented with short-chain galactooligosaccharides and long-chain fructooligosaccharides (ratio 9:1; Immunofortis()) in combination with pectin-derived acidic oligosaccharides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt Arch Allergy Immunol
February 2010
Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Background/aim: Evidence demonstrating an important role of the intestinal microbiota in the incidence of allergic disorders has led to the concept of using probiotics as possible antiallergic therapy. This study aimed to select a bacterial strain with the best antiallergic treatment effects from a panel of 6 bacterial strains in a mouse model of ovalbumin(OVA)-allergic asthma.
Methods: OVA-sensitized BALB/c mice were orally administered the bacterial strains Bifidobacterium breve M-16V, B.
Eur J Neurol
September 2009
Danone Research-Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive condition characterized by neurodegeneration and the dense deposition of proteins in the brain. There is no cure for AD and current treatments usually only provide a temporary reduction of symptoms. There is thus a strong unmet need for effective preventative and therapeutic strategies and the potential role for nutrition in such strategies is rapidly gaining interest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Cancer
December 2008
Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition (formerly known as Numico Research), Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The majority of patients with advanced cancer are recognised by impaired immune competence influenced by several factors, including the type and stage of the tumour and the presence of cachexia. Recently, a specific nutritional combination containing fish oil, specific oligosaccharide mixture, high protein content and leucine has been developed aimed to support the immune system of cancer patients in order to reduce the frequency and severity of (infectious) complications. In a recently modified animal model cachexia is induced by inoculation of C26 tumour cells in mice.
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