LACTOFERRIN HYDROLYZATE FOR USE AS AN ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT AND AS A TYROSINASE INHIBITION AGENT

• Main Authors: TAMURA, YOSHITAKA, KAWASE, KOUZOU, YAMAUCHI, KOJI, TAKASE, MITSUNORI, KOBAYASHI, SUSUMU, TOMITA, MAMORU, MIYAKAWA, HIROSHI, ABE, HIROAKI, SHIMAMURA, SEIICHI, SAITO, HITOSHI NO. 301 MORINAGA-YURIGAOKA-SHATAKU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.01.1992
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; FISHING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PHOSPHATIDE COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRAPPING; WORKING-UP PROTEINS FOR FOODSTUFFS

Lactoferrin hydrolyzates, having a decomposition rate between 4-50% as measured by formol titration, for use as a tyrosinase inhibition agent, which are obtainable by the conventional method for hydrolysis with acid or enzyme, and which are stable to heating.