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US 2025/0081978 A1Published application
Human milk permeate compositions and methods of making and using same
AssigneeProlacta Bioscience, Inc.
InventorsJoseph FOURNELL, Scott EAKER, Scott ELSTER, David J. RECHTMAN
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Abstract
This disclosure features human milk permeates and compositions containing the same obtained from fractionated whole human milk. The oligosaccharide rich permeate and permeate compositions of the present invention are useful as nutritional supplements for pre-term and full term infants, for establishing or maintaining gut flora and for treating the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease.
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A method for promoting development of beneficial gut flora, comprising:
- administering to an adult subject in need thereof a composition comprising concentrated human milk permeate comprising a plurality of human milk oligosaccharides,
- thereby promoting the development of beneficial gut flora in the subject's gut.
A method of making a concentrated human milk permeate composition, comprising:
- ultra-filtering skim milk collected from pooled human milk to obtain human milk permeate, wherein the human milk permeate comprises a plurality of human milk oligosaccharides;
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- concentrating the human milk permeate to obtain a concentrated human milk permeate with an increased concentration of the human milk oligosaccharides with respect to the human milk permeate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.