NCT00970398

Effect of an Infant Formula on Infant Growth, Health and Immune Functions

Effect of Infant Formula With Bovine Milk Osteopontin on Infant Growth, Health and Immune functions-a Double-blind Randomized Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 320 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Biostime, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 30 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The specific objectives of this study are to evaluate the effects of bovine milk osteopontin added to infant formula on infant growth, health and immune functions.

Detailed description

Breast-fed infants will be used as a reference group and formula-fed infants will be fed control formula or the same formula supplemented with Osteopontin at a concentration 50% or 100% of that of breast milk. The hypothesis is that supplementation of bovine milk Osteopontin in infant formula will have positive effects on infant growth, health and immune functions.

Conditions

• Health
• Growth
• Immune Functions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Infant formula supplemented with bovine milk Osteopontin	Infant formula supplemented with bovine milk osteopontin at 50% and 100% levels of that of breast milk respectively.
OTHER	Standard infant formula	Infant formula without supplementation of bovine milk Osteopontin

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2009-09-02
• Last updated: 2013-04-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China