乳糖酶治疗小儿腹泻病的临床分析

目的 研究小儿腹泻病继发乳糖不耐受的年龄、病因及乳糖酶治疗继发乳糖不耐受的效果.方法 对382例腹泻继发乳糖不耐受患儿进行年龄、病因分析,同时将患儿分成治疗及对照两组,分析乳糖酶的疗效.结果 小儿腹泻继发乳糖不耐受以婴幼儿多见,轮状病毒感染是继发乳糖不耐受的主要病因,乳糖酶治疗继发乳糖不耐受疗效显著.结论 婴幼儿腹泻常规给予乳糖酶可以缩短病程,减少治疗费用,患儿及家长易于接受.     

婴幼儿腹泻与乳糖不耐受关系的研究

目的研究婴幼儿腹泻乳糖不耐受的发生率;轮状病毒肠炎与乳糖不耐受的的关系;婴幼儿腹泻去乳糖饮食的疗效。方法采用醋酸铅法检测粪便乳糖的含量。应用ELISA双抗体夹心法测定粪便轮状病毒抗原抗。分组观察婴幼儿腹泻去乳糖饮食的疗效。结果婴幼儿腹泻乳糖不耐受的发生率为62.5%。其中<1岁乳糖不耐受的发生率为70.59%;>1岁乳糖不耐受的发生率为42.86%,0.010.05。婴幼儿腹泻乳糖不耐受去乳糖饮食有效率93.33%;对照组有效率53.33%,P<0.01。结论(1)婴幼儿腹泻时乳糖不耐受发生率高达62.5%;(2)RV肠炎时可合并继发性乳糖不耐受,继发性乳糖不耐受可能加重腹泻症状,是使腹泻时间延长的重要原因;(3)婴幼儿腹泻时乳糖不耐受给去乳糖饮食疗效肯定。     

解脂耶氏酵母细胞表面展示乳糖水解酶高效水解乳糖

乳糖是婴幼儿获取能量的重要碳源之一,但乳糖需要在乳糖酶的作用下水解成半乳糖与葡萄糖后才能被吸收。缺少乳糖分解酶的婴幼儿在摄入含乳糖的食品后,未被消化的乳糖会直接进入大肠,刺激大肠蠕动加快,造成一系列不适应症状即乳糖不耐症,我国属于乳糖不耐症高发国家。因此,解决乳糖的体外水解问题对减轻该症状有重要的意义。研究通过将β-半乳糖苷酶(也称为乳糖水解酶)表面展示在食品安全微生物解脂耶氏酵母(Yarrowia lipolytica)细胞表面,通过培养获得该酵母,然后直接利用酵母细胞来水解乳糖生成半乳糖与葡萄糖。采用该工程酵母细胞(HCY10),能在24小时内完全水解50g/L的乳糖,生成半乳糖与葡萄糖。该方法具有高效、简便的优点,能为乳糖的高效水解提供一条新的途径。     

羧甲基壳聚糖的肝靶向修饰及导向效果研究

为合成一种能携带目的基因并靶向富集到肝组织中的有效载体,用还原胺化法将乳糖共价连接于羧甲基壳聚糖.成分分析表明制备出的乳糖化羧甲基壳聚糖共价结合物中乳糖与羧甲基壳聚糖的摩尔比为15：1.采用真核细胞表达载体β-半乳糖苷酶报道基因,分别观察了其在体内和体外对肝细胞的定向释放及对基因表达的影响.结果表明,DNA与Lac-CMCS的最佳质量比是1：12.体内实验证实DNA与Lac-CMCS形成复合物后能在肝组织中富集并在肝细胞中有效表达.合成的乳糖化羧甲基壳聚糖具备肝靶向导向能力,是一种有效的肝靶向载体.     

大肠杆菌增殖培养方法

本文介绍一种培养大肠杆菌的新方法：在普通肉汤和普通琼脂培养基中加入一定量的乳糖,可明显地促进大肠杆菌（E．coli）增殖。用平板计数法、麦氏比浊法及离心称重法,对6株禽源E．coli和2株猪源E．coli培养产物的含菌量、菌泥湿重测定,结果表明：在普通肉汤中加乳糖可使E．coli产量增加约100％;在普通琼脂中,加乳糖可使E．coli产量增加200％以上。本法可用于菌苗的生产和分子生物学中,具有经济、简单的特点。     

初乳中主要组分的动态变化及产妇年龄和剖宫产的影响

测定了来自20位健康母亲(其中8位为剖宫产)的118份初乳(泌乳第1～7d)中乳糖和蛋白质浓度.通过线性模型,分析产妇年龄和剖宫产对乳糖和蛋白质含量的影响.结果表明,乳糖在泌乳第1d最低,在泌乳1w内增加,其中泌乳第1d的乳糖浓度极显著低于第7d(P＜0.01).乳蛋白的浓度在泌乳第1d最高,泌乳1w内下降,其中前3d水平显著或极显著高于第7d(P＜0.05或P＜0.01).初乳中乳糖和乳蛋白含量呈极显著负相关(r=-0.523,P＜0.01).剖宫产母亲初乳中乳糖含量显著低于顺产(P＜0.05),剖宫产与顺产母亲初乳中蛋白质含量差异不显著(P＞0.05).产妇年龄的大小与初乳中蛋白质和乳糖含量均无显著关系(P＞0.05).     

小儿轮状病毒肠炎与乳糖不耐受的相关性研究

目的探讨轮状病毒（Rotavirus,RV）肠炎及与乳糖不耐受（Lactose intolerance,LI）之间的相关性。方法前瞻性的纵向观察并随访重庆医科大学附属儿童医院2010年1月至2月收治的52例确诊为RV肠炎的患儿,分成LI组（观察组）28例及非LI组（对照组）24例,比较分析2组之间临床表现及预后。结果观察组及对照组的腹泻次数、脱水程度及腹泻的预后之间的差异没有统计学意义（P〉0.05）;去乳糖治疗后2组的腹泻次数均有显著性减少（P〈0.01）,但去乳糖3 d后观察组的腹泻次数比对照组多（P〈0.05）。结论 LI对RV肠炎临床表现及预后没有明显的影响,在RV肠炎急性期去乳糖治疗的价值有限,益生菌可能有助于急性腹泻的缓解。     

酸奶能够克服“乳糖不耐受”的原因探究

随着人们生活水平的提高和对营养健康的关注,牛奶成了家庭必备的食品。但有些人喝牛奶会腹胀、腹泻,而喝酸奶会避免这个症状。通过上网查阅资料,采访专家,参考文献,开展社会调研,亲自制作酸奶,实地考察酸奶生产线,以及对对酸奶成分进行检测后,发现喝牛奶腹胀、腹泻的现象(乳糖不耐受)较为普遍,其主要原因是体内缺乏乳糖酶的人群不能分解牛奶中的乳糖所致。酸奶与牛奶的加工工艺不同,在发酵过程中20%-30%的乳糖被分解,含量明显下降,易于人体消化吸收。加之酸奶中的活性乳酸菌的代谢物可增加小肠乳糖水平,从而有效缓解和克服了乳糖不耐受的症状。     

益生菌制剂的临床研究

本文主要讨论益生菌对乳糖消化的作用及对腹泻的治疗作用。１乳糖的消化与所有的成年动物一样，绝大多数成年人于幼时断奶后起，小肠刷状缘乳糖酶的活性便逐渐下降，故全世界大多数人消化乳糖的能力差。其结果是乳糖吸收不充分，大量进入肠道产生乳糖不耐受症的症状和体征...     

乳糖代替IPTG诱导重组人胸腺肽α1在大肠杆菌中的表达

研究以乳糖代替IPTG作为诱导剂诱导重组人胸腺肽α1表达的可行性,对乳糖诱导的时机、乳糖浓度、诱导持续时间以及其它诱导条件进行研究,确定了乳糖诱导的最佳条件。结果表明,乳糖能有效地诱导重组人胸腺肽α1的表达,并且目的蛋白的表达量略高于IPTG的诱导量。     

Recent advances on prebiotic lactulose production

Lactulose, a synthetic disaccharide, has received increasing interest due to its role as a prebiotic. The production of lactulose is important in the dairy industry, as it is regarded as a high value-added derivative of whey or lactose. The industrial production of lactulose is still mainly done by chemical isomerization. Due to concerns on the environmental and tedious separation processes, the enzymatic-based lactulose synthesis has been regarded as an interesting alternative. This work aims at comparing chemical and enzyme-catalyzed lactulose synthesis. With an emphasis on the latter one, this review discusses the influences of the critical operating conditions and the suited operation mode on the transgalactosylation of lactulose using microbial enzymes. As an update and supplement to other previous reviews, this work also summarizes the recent reports that highlighted the enzymatic isomerization of lactose using cellobiose 2-epimerase to produce lactulose at elevated yields.     

Alcohol production from cheese whey permeate using genetically modified flocculent yeast cells.

Alcoholic fermentation of cheese whey permeate was investigated using a recombinant flocculating Saccharomyces cerevisiae, expressing the LAC4 (coding for beta-galactosidase) and LAC12 (coding for lactose permease) genes of Kluyveromyces marxianus enabling for lactose metabolization. Data on yeast fermentation and growth on cheese whey permeate from a Portuguese dairy industry is presented. For cheese whey permeate having a lactose concentration of 50 gL(-1), total lactose consumption was observed with a conversion yield of ethanol close to the expected theoretical value. Using a continuously operating 5.5-L bioreactor, ethanol productivity near 10 g L(-1) h(-1) (corresponding to 0.45 h(-1) dilution rate) was obtained, which raises new perspectives for the economic feasibility of whey alcoholic fermentation. The use of 2-times concentrated cheese whey permeate, corresponding to 100 gL(-1) of lactose concentration, was also considered allowing for obtaining a fermentation product with 5% (w/v) alcohol.     

Valorization of Dairy Wastes: Integrative Approaches for Value Added Products

The era of rapid industrialization succeeded by a shift in organizational focus on research and technology development which has fueled many industries along with the dairy industry to grow at an exponential rate. The dairy industry has achieved remarkable growth in the last decade in India. Waste produced by dairy industry consists of a high organic load thus cannot be discharged untreated. Even though treatment and management of waste are well documented, but the main problem is concerned with sludge produced after treatment. There is a gap in the application of various methods for effective treatment of the waste, hence there is a need for technology-oriented research in this area because of a paradigm shift in perspectives towards sustainable management of waste to recover value added products including energy as energy demand is also rising. Sludge which is generally land spread can also be used for energy generation. This paper discusses the environmental effects of waste generated due to dairy industrial activities; various methods used for the advanced treatment of dairy waste. This review article aims to present and discuss the state-of-art information for recovery of value-added products (single cell protein, biofertilizers, biopolymers and biosurfactants) from dairy waste with emphasis on integration of technologies for environmental sustainability. This paper also includes challenges and future perspectives in this field.     

Farmer views on calving difficulty consequences on dairy and beef farms

Calving difficulty (CD) is a key functional trait with significant influence on herd profitability and animal welfare. Breeding plays an important role in managing CD both at farm and industry level. An alternative to the economic value approach to determine the CD penalty is to complement the economic models with the analysis of farmer perceived on-farm impacts of CD. The aim of this study was to explore dairy and beef farmer views and perceptions on the economic and non-economic on-farm consequences of CD, to ultimately inform future genetic selection tools for the beef and dairy industries in Ireland. A standardised quantitative online survey was released to all farmers with e-mail addresses on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation database. In total, 271 farmers completed the survey (173 beef farmers and 98 dairy farmers). Both dairy and beef farmers considered CD a very important issue with economic and non-economic components. However, CD was seen as more problematic by dairy farmers, who mostly preferred to slightly reduce its incidence, than by beef farmers, who tended to support increases in calf value even though it would imply a slight increase in CD incidence. Farm size was found to be related to dairy farmer views of CD with farmers from larger farms considering CD as more problematic than farmers from smaller farms. CD breeding value was reported to be critical for selecting beef sires to mate with either beef or dairy cows, whereas when selecting dairy sires, CD had lower importance than breeding values for other traits. There was considerable variability in the importance farmers give to CD breeding values that could not be explained by the farm type or the type of sire used, which might be related to the farmer non-economic motives. Farmer perceived economic value associated with incremental increases in CD increases substantially as the CD level considered increases. This non-linear relationship cannot be reflected in a standard linear index weighting. The results of this paper provide key underpinning support to the development of non-linear index weightings for CD in Irish national indexes.     

Production of β-carotene from deproteinized waste whey filtrate using Mucor azygosporus MTCC 414 in submerged fermentation

The cheese whey, a by-product of dairy industry proved to be an attractive substrate for production of β-carotene. The β-carotene production from Mucor azygosporus MTCC 414 by using deproteinized waste whey filtrate under submerged fermentation was investigated. Various fermentation variables, such as lactose content in whey, initial pH, production temperature, incubation time, and carbon and nitrogen sources played significant role on β-carotene production. Maximum β-carotene production (385 μg/g dcw) was obtained with the whey (pH 5.5) containing 3.5% (w/v) lactose supplemented with soluble starch at (1.0%, w/v) at 30°C after a 5 days incubation. Moreover, unlike other microorganisms which utilize pre-hydrolyzed lactose, this Mucor azygosporus MTCC 414 was found to be capable of utilizing unhydrolyzed lactose present in the whey.     

Biotechnological approaches for the value addition of whey

Whey, the liquid remaining after milk fat and casein have been separated from whole milk, is one of the major disposal problems of the dairy industry, and demands simple and economical solutions. In view of the fast developments in biotechnological techniques, alternatives of treating whey by transforming lactose present in it to value added products have been actively explored. Whey can be used directly as a substrate for the growth of different microorganisms to obtain various products such as ethanol, single-cell protein, enzymes, lactic acid, citric acid, biogas and so on. In this review, a comprehensive and illustrative survey is made to elaborate the various biotechnological innovations/techniques applied for the effective utilization of whey for the production of different bioproducts.     

Whey valorisation: A complete and novel technology development for dairy industry starter culture production

Whey is the major by-product of the dairy industry, produced in large quantities and usually disposed off causing major environmental pollution, due to its high organic load that makes treatment cost prohibitive. This paper comprises a contribution on the valorisation of this high polluting liquid waste of the dairy industry, based on research for the production of novel dairy starter cultures using whey as raw material. Starter cultures are used for cheese ripening in order to: (i) accelerate ripening, (ii) improve quality and (iii) increase shelf-life. The developed technology involves biomass production from whey followed by thermal drying of cultures. Specifically, Kluyveromyces marxianus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus and kefir yeasts were thermally dried, and their efficiency in lactose and milk whey fermentations was studied. The most suitable culture regarding its technological properties was kefir, which was used for cheese ripening in freeze-dried and thermally dried form. Besides the reduction of production cost, which is an essential requirement for the food industry, the use of thermally dried kefir displayed several other advantages such as acceleration of ripening, increase of shelf-life, and improvement of hard-type cheese quality.     

Generation of an Industry-specific Physico-chemical Allocation Matrix. Application in the Dairy Industry and Implications for Systems Analysis (9 pp)

Background, Aims and Scope Allocation is required when quantifying environmental impacts of individual products from multi-product manufacturing plants. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recommends in ISO 14041 that allocation should reflect underlying physical relationships between inputs and outputs, or in the absence of such knowledge, allocation should reflect other relationships (e.g. economic value). Economic allocation is generally recommended if process specific information on the manufacturing process is lacking. In this paper, a physico-chemical allocation matrix, based on industry-specific data from the dairy industry, is developed and discussed as an alternative allocation method. Methods Operational data from 17 dairy manufacturing plants was used to develop an industry specific physico-chemical allocation matrix. Through an extensive process of substraction/substitution, it is possible to determine average resource use (e.g. electricity, thermal energy, water, etc) and wastewater emissions for individual dairy products within multi-product manufacturing plants. The average operational data for individual products were normalised to maintain industry confidentiality and then used as an industry specific allocation matrix. The quantity of raw milk required per product is based on the milk solids basis to account for dairy by-products that would otherwise be neglected. Results and Discussion Applying fixed type allocation methods (e.g. economic) for all input and outputs based on the quantity of product introduces order of magnitude sized deviations from physico-chemical allocation in some cases. The error associated with the quality of the whole of factory plant data or truncation error associated with setting system boundaries is insignificant in comparison. The profound effects of the results on systems analysis are discussed. The results raise concerns about using economic allocation as a default when allocating intra-industry sectoral flows (i.e. mass and process energy) in the absence of detailed technical information. It is recommended that economic allocation is better suited as a default for reflecting inter-industry sectoral flows. Conclusion The study highlights the importance of accurate causal allocation procedures that reflect industry-specific production methods. Generation of industry-specific allocation matrices is possible through a process of substitution/subtraction and optimisation. Allocation using such matrices overcomes the inherit bias of mass, process energy or price allocations for a multi-product manufacturing plant and gives a more realistic indication of resource use or emissions per product. The approach appears to be advantageous for resource use or emissions allocation if data is only available on a whole of factory basis for several plants with a similar level of technology. Recommendation and Perspective The industry specific allocation matrix approach will assist with allocation in multi-product LCAs where the level of technology in an industry is similar. The matrix will also benefit dairy manufacturing companies and help them more accurately allocate resources and impacts (i.e. costs) to different products within the one plant. It is recommended that similar physico-chemical allocation matrices be developed for other industry sectors with a view of ultimately coupling them with input-output analysis.     

Genetic structure of a novel biofuel-producing microorganism community

Biofuels are an important alternative, renewable source of energy in the face of the ongoing depletion of fossil fuels. Cheese whey is a dairy industry waste characterized by high lactose concentration, which represents a significant environmental problem. Bio-ethanol production by cheese whey could be an effective nonvegetable source for renewable energy production. Here, we report the isolation of a mixed microbial population, able to produce ethanol as main fermentation product from fermenting whey. The microbial consortium has been used to perform a batch fermentation of crude whey in both anoxic and hypoxic conditions. Maximum ethanol concentrations achieved in this study was obtained using the mixed culture in hypoxic conditions, grown at pH 4 and 30°C, with ethanol production yield of 60 g/L. Our research has pointed out an alternative way to both dispose and valorize cheese whey, a dairy by-product that could cause water pollution and harm to the environment if not properly treated.     

Structures and Properties of Gellan Polymers Produced by Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461 from Lactose Compared with Those Produced from Glucose and from Cheese Whey

The dairy industry produces large quantities of whey as a by-product of cheese production and is increasingly looking for new ways to utilize this waste product. Gellan gum is reliably produced by Sphingomonas paucimobilis in growth media containing lactose, a significant component of cheese whey, as a carbon source. We studied and compared polysaccharide biosynthesis by S. paucimobilis ATCC 31461 in media containing glucose, lactose (5 to 30 g/liter), and sweet cheese whey. We found that altering the growth medium can markedly affect the polysaccharide yield, acyl substitution level, polymer rheological properties, and susceptibility to degradation. Depression of gellan production from lactose compared with gellan production from glucose (approximately 30%) did not appear to occur at the level of synthesis of sugar nucleotides, which are the donors of monomers used for biosynthesis of the repetitive tetrasaccharide unit of gellan. The lactose-derived biopolymer had the highest total acyl content; the glucose- and whey-derived gellans had similar total acyl contents but differed markedly in their acetate and glycerate levels. Rheological studies revealed how the functionality of a gellan polysaccharide is affected by changes in the acyl substitution.