尽管发明了有强大作用的广谱抗生素,但是败血病休克仍然是加强护理病房中最常见的死亡原因。现在芝加哥医学院和Abbott实验室的研究人员进行了一项研究,测试一种乳蛋白——口服乳铁蛋白调整小猪致死性内毒素性休克的能力。在给这些小猪静脉内注射大肠埃希杆菌脂多糖(LPS)之前,给它们喂食乳铁蛋白或牛血清白蛋白(BSA)。预先饲给乳铁 Septicemia remains the most common cause of death in intensive care units despite the introduction of powerful broad-spectrum antibiotics. Now researchers at Chicago Medical School and Abbott Laboratories conducted a study to test the ability of a lactoprotein, an oral lactoferrin, to modulate lethal endotoxic shock in piglets. These piglets were fed lactoferrin or bovine serum albumin (BSA) prior to intravenous injection of E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Pre-lactoferrin