Breastfeeding: maintaining an irreplaceable immunological resource

Breast milk and neonatal necrotising enterocolitis

1990 • 1,587 citations

How many child deaths can we prevent this year?

2003 • 1,567 citations

Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT)

2001 • 1,525 citations

Breast-feeding and cognitive development: a meta-analysis

1999 • 1,291 citations

Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis

2000 • 1,005 citations

Fetal and Neonatal Physiology

1989 • 901 citations

Complementary feeding of young children in developing countries: a review of current scientific knowledge.

1998 • 830 citations

Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces Acute Respiratory Infection and Diarrhea Deaths Among Infants in Dhaka Slums

2001 • 580 citations

International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes

1982 • 568 citations

Antibacterial activity of lactoferrin and a pepsin-derived lactoferrin peptide fragment

1993 • 494 citations

Method of feeding and transmission of HIV-1 from mothers to children by 15 months of age: prospective cohort study from Durban, South Africa

2001 • 433 citations

Fetal and Neonatal Physiology

1993 • 377 citations

Changes in Child Survival Are Strongly Associated with Changes in Malnutrition in Developing Countries

2003 • 329 citations

Role of human-milk lactadherin in protectoin against symptomatic rotavirus infection

1998 • 325 citations

Breastfeeding and Infant Growth: Biology or Bias?

2002 • 273 citations

An Evolutionary Perspective

2004 • 260 citations

Modulation of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Infants by Human Milk. Interfaces and Interactions. An Evolutionary Perspective

2000 • 242 citations

The fæcal bacterial flora of animals and man: Its development in the young

1961 • 231 citations

Increased risistance of immunoglobulin A dimers to proteolytic degradation after binding of secretory component.

1975 • 227 citations

Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis

2000 • 222 citations

Human milk provides peptides highly stimulating the growth of bifidobacteria

2002 • 216 citations

Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of Respiratory Illness in Infants

1998 • 215 citations

Iron in human milk

1980 • 206 citations

AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ABO BLOOD-GROUP DISTRIBUTION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENCES IN DEATH-RATES

1977 • 203 citations

Increased Resistance of Immunoglobulin a Dimers to Proteolytic Degradation after Binding of Secretory Component

1975 • 198 citations

Early Feeding, Antenatal Glucocorticoids, and Human Milk Decrease Intestinal Permeability in Preterm Infants

1998 • 181 citations

Inhibition of adhesion of S-fimbriated Escherichia coli to buccal epithelial cells by human milk fat globule membrane components: a novel aspect of the protective function of mucins in the nonimmunoglobulin fraction

1992 • 176 citations

Interleukin-10 in Human Milk

1995 • 169 citations

Activated and memory T lymphocytes in human milk

1992 • 159 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) in human milk

1993 • 148 citations

Evolution of Immunologic Functions of the Mammary Gland and the Postnatal Development of Immunity

1998 • 135 citations

The Economic Impact of Breastfeeding

2001 • 124 citations

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BREASTFEEDING AND INFANT MORTALITY: THE ROLE OF SANITATION AND WATER IN MALAYSIA

1984 • 107 citations

Holding corporations accountable: corporate conduct, international codes and citizen action

2002 • 104 citations

A World Fit For Children

2005 • 103 citations

Early Initiation of Breastfeeding and the Risk of Infant Diarrhea in Rural Egypt

1999 • 98 citations

Protein and Non-Protein Nitrogen in Human Milk

2019 • 97 citations

EFFECT OF BREAST-FEEDING ON IMMUNE RESPONSE TO BCG VACCINATION

1989 • 95 citations

The Nutritional Role of Breast‐Milk IgA and Lactoferrin

1987 • 93 citations

Molecular Forms of Lactoferrin in Stool and Urine from Infants Fed Human Milk

1990 • 88 citations

Holding Corporations Accountable: Corporate Conduct, International Codes and Citizen Action

2001 • 80 citations

Effect of breastfeeding education on the feeding pattern and health of infants in their first 4 months in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

1999 • 79 citations

The Impact of a Hospital and Clinic-based Breastfeeding Promotion Programme in a Middle Class Urban Environment

1993 • 79 citations

Undialyzable Growth Factors for Lactobacillus bifidus var. pennsylvanicus

1974 • 77 citations

Evolution of the mammary gland defense system and the ontogeny of the immune system.

2002 • 77 citations

Cross-cultural patterns of growth and nutritional status of breast-fed infants

1998 • 74 citations

Human Milk Contains the Shiga Toxin and Shiga-like Toxin Receptor Glycolipid Gb3

1992 • 66 citations

Effect of breast feeding on responses of systemic interferon and virus‐specific lymphocyte transformation in infants with respiratory syncytial virus infection

1987 • 63 citations

Trace amounts of ganglioside GM1 in human milk inhibit enterotoxins from and

1987 • 59 citations

The immunological role of breast feeding

2001 • 57 citations

Feeding Practices and Growth among Low-Income Peruvian Infants: A Comparison of Internationally-Recommended Definitions

1996 • 56 citations

Growth Faltering Is Prevented by Breast-Feeding in Underprivileged Infants from Mexico City

2000 • 56 citations

Morbidity in children born to women infected with human immunodeficiency virus in South Africa: does mode of feeding matter?

2003 • 52 citations

Replacement-Fed Infants Born to HIV-Infected Mothers in India Have a High Early Postpartum Rate of Hospitalization

2003 • 52 citations

Proteins and Non-protein Nitrogen in Human Milk

1989 • 49 citations

Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) Receptors in Human Colostrum and Milk Bind to TNF-α and Neutralize TNF-α Bioactivity

1998 • 49 citations

Determinants of infant growth in the slums of Dhaka: size and maturity at birth, breastfeeding and morbidity

2001 • 48 citations

The impact of breastfeeding practices on respiratory and diarrhoeal disease in infancy: a study from Sri Lanka

1999 • 46 citations

Lysozyme Binds to Elastin and Protects Elastin from Elastase-Mediated Degradation

1996 • 46 citations

Bifidobacterium bifidus var. Pennsylvanicus growth promoting activity of human milk casein and its derivatives

1981 • 44 citations

In‐Vivo Immune Responses of Breast‐ and Bottle‐fed Infants to Tetanus Toxoid Antigen and to Normal Gut Flora

1984 • 42 citations

Dietary Regulation of Intestinal Glycosyl-Transferase Activities: Relation between Developmental Changes and Weaning in Rats

1991 • 40 citations

Modeling the Effects of Different Infant Feeding Strategies on Infant Survival and Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

2004 • 35 citations

Plan of action for implementing the world declaration on the survival, protection and development of children in the 1990s

1991 • 34 citations

INHIBITION OF BACTERIAL IgA PROTEASES BY HUMAN SECRETORY IgA AND SERUM*

1983 • 25 citations

Plasma fibronectin concentrations in breast fed and formula fed neonates.

1988 • 23 citations

ESTIMATION OF BIRTHS AVERTED DUE TO BREAST-FEEDING AND INCREASES IN LEVELS OF CONTRACEPTION NEEDED TO SUBSTITUTE FOR BREAST-FEEDING

2003 • 19 citations

THE HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION OF THE STOOLS OF NEW-BORN INFANTS

1926 • 17 citations

Neonatal Colonization with <i>Escherichia coli</i> and the Ontogeny of the Antibody Response

1982 • 15 citations

Human Tracheobronchial Secretions: Development of Mucous Glycoprotein and Lysozyme-secreting Systems

1977 • 15 citations

Cost of infant feeding in exclusive and partially breastfed infants.

1996 • 10 citations

Advances in nutritional research

1985 • 8 citations

Protecting Infant Health: A Health Workers' Guide to the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes

1995 • 6 citations