Artigo Revisado por pares

Conjugated linoleic acid in bovine milk fat: a food-based approach to cancer chemoprevention

1998; Elsevier BV; Volume: 9; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0924-2244(98)00036-3

ISSN

1879-3053

Autores

Marianne O’Shea, Fergal Lawless, Catherine Stanton, Rosaleen Devery,

Tópico(s)

Coconut Research and Applications

Resumo

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a naturally occurring fatty acid found in animal and dairy fats that exhibits a number of health benefits. An explosion of research has demonstrated the importance of CLA in health-promotion, e.g. as a dietary chemopreventive agent in addition to exhibiting anticatabolic and antiatherosclerotic properties. This has led to efforts to manipulate naturally the CLA content of milk and animal tissue by dietary intervention. Such research may lead to the development of new high CLA-containing 'functional foods' designed for cancer chemoprevention.

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