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Lactoferricin-Derived Peptides Lower Blood Pressure: Antihypertensive Properties Confirmed

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The takeaway

Lactoferricin B-derived peptides showed confirmed antihypertensive activity through ACE inhibition and other mechanisms, adding blood pressure management to the milk peptide's antimicrobial and anticancer profiles.

Key finding

Lactoferricin B-derived peptides showed confirmed antihypertensive activity through ACE inhibition and other mechanisms, adding blood pressure managem

What the researchers found

Lactoferricin B-derived peptides showed confirmed antihypertensive activity through ACE inhibition and other mechanisms, adding blood pressure management to the milk peptide's antimicrobial and anticancer profiles.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2010.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
Lactoferricin-Derived Peptides Lower Blood Pressure: Antihypertensive Properties Confirmed
What was found?
Lactoferricin B-derived peptides showed confirmed antihypertensive activity through ACE inhibition and other mechanisms, adding blood pressure management to the milk peptide's antimicrobial and anticancer profiles.

Read the original research

Antihypertensive properties of lactoferricin B-derived peptides.

Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 58(11), 6721-7

Citation

Ruiz-Giménez, Pedro; Ibáñez, Aida; Salom, Juan B; Marcos, Jose F; López-Díez, Jose Javier; Vallés, Salvador; Torregrosa, Germán; Alborch, Enrique; Manzanares, Paloma. (2010). Antihypertensive properties of lactoferricin B-derived peptides.. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 58(11), 6721-7. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf100899u