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Immune functions of immunoglobulin Y isolated from egg yolk of hens immunized with various infectious bacteria
Y Sugita-Konishi1, K Shibata, S S Yun
1Department of Biomedical Food Research, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
We studied the immune functions of IgY obtained from hens immunized with a mixture of formalin-treated pathogenic bacteria. The IgY inhibited the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the production of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin-A, and adhesion of Salmonella enteritidis to cultured human intestinal cells (Caco 2). The results indicated that IgY specific for plural bacteria has effects useful toward prevention of bacterial diseases.