Milk miRNAs: simple nutrients or systemic functional regulators?

Milk is rich in miRNAs that appear to play important roles in the postnatal development of all mammals. Currently, two competing hypotheses exist: the functional hypothesis, which proposes that milk miRNAs are transferred to the offspring and exert physiological regulatory functions, and the nutriti...

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Main Authors: Melnik, Bodo C., Kakulas, Foteini, Geddes, Donna T., Hartmann, Peter E., John, Swen Malte, Carrera-Bastos, Pedro, Cordain, Loren, Schmitz, Gerd
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4915038/