Effects of maternal medication use on NGF and IL-6 levels in human breast milk

Autor: Navya Talluri, Maya Maliekal, Rahul Rajkumar, Eunice Woldt, Holly Cox, Kashmira Wani, Marilynn R. Fairfax, Nitin Shasikant Chouthai
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine. 30:2287-2290
ISSN: 1476-4954
1476-7058
Popis: BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of maternal medications on nerve growth factor (NGF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels in human breast milk (HBM). METHODS A total of 30 samples of HBM were collected after consent from consecutively born term newborns. NGF and IL-6 concentrations were analyzed using ELISA assays from R&D Systems. The HBM samples were centrifuged, and the clear portion of the HBM after discarding the fat was analyzed and cytokine data were expressed as NGFC or IL-6C. Ten samples of HBM, which were not centrifuged, were also used in ELISA assays and cytokine data were expressed as NGFF or IL-6F. RESULTS After exposure to NSAIDs (7636 ± 9610, mean ± SD, pg/mL), the NGFC levels in HBM were significantly higher as compared to those who were exposed to narcotics (522 ± 1000) (p = 0.008). NGFC and IL-6C levels positively correlated with each other in HBM (R = 0.194 p
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