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Liyuan Hao1, Qiang Shan1, Jingya Wei1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.

Current Protein & Peptide Science
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PubMed

Keywords:
Lactoferrin (Lf)anti-cancer effectanti-microbial effectanti-viral effectantioxidant effectapplicationimmunomodulatory functioniron-binding activity.

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