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Fall 2012
Phosphopeptides derived from egg yolk phosvitin have been reported to exhibit various physiological functions. However, commercial use of phosvitin phosphopeptides (PPPs) has been hampered due to the lack of a simple and economic method to prepare PPPs. The purposes of this study were to develop...
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Phosvitin Extraction from Egg Yolk and Its Potential as a Functional Food Ingredient for Improving Bone Health
DownloadSpring 2019
Osteoporosis is a common disease afflicting a quarter of the population of 50 years old and above worldwide. The osteoporotic fracture brings great pain/inconvenience to the patients, and sometimes causes immobility or even mortality. Drugs are available for treating osteoporosis but are...
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Studies on antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of phosvitin hydrolysates produced by high hydrostatic pressure combined with enzymatic hydrolysis
DownloadFall 2016
Phosvitin (PV) is a metal binding protein in egg yolk with unique amino acid composition (more than 55% serine). Due to a high proportion of phosphorylated serine residues, PV shows metal chelating, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. The use of PV, however, in nutra- or pharmaceutical...