USE OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES CONTAINING N-ACETYLLACTOSAMINE FOR MATURATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES IN NEONATES

• Main Authors: SPRENGER, NORBERT, FICHOT, MARIE-CLAIRE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.12.2016
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

THIS INVENTION RELATES TO THE USE OF AN OLIGOSACCHARIDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF LACTO-N-TETRAOSE, LACTO-N-NEOTETRAOSE, LACTO-N-HEXAOSE, LACTO-N-NEOHEXAOSE, PARA-LACTO-N-HEXAOSE, PARA-LACTO-N-NEOHEXAOSE, LACTO-N- OCTAOSE, LACTO-N-NEOOCTAOSE, ISO-LACTO-N-OCTAOSE, PARA- LACTO-N-OCTAOSE AND LACTO-N-DECAOSEIN THE MANUFACTURE OF A MEDICAMENT FOR INFANTS OR A THERAPEUTIC NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION FOR INFANTS FOR MODULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES IN A NEONATAL INFANT. THE INVENTION EXTENDS TO THE USE OF SUCH AN OLIGOSACCHARIDE FOR MODULATING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OF A NEONATAL INFANT TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF THE LIFE OF THE INFANT OF A BENEFICIAL INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA COMPARABLE WITH THAT FOUND IN BREAST FED INFANTS AND FOR REDUCING THE RISK OF SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT OF ALLERGY IN THE INFANT.