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Posted by Dan Nonte, University Relations
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Posted 6-17-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The UNCG Center for Research Excellence in Bioactive Food Components recently worked with a Chinese university to conduct an animal study of the kidney damage caused by melamine, the contaminant that has sickened and killed pets and babies in recent years.
This study was performed immediately after powdered milk adulterated with melamine caused an outbreak of kidney failure among infants in China in September 2008.
Researchers from UNCG, including center co-director Wei Jia, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Pharmacy examined the biochemical changes caused by melamine in the kidney function of rats. The results of the study have been published on the web by the Journal of Proteome Research.
The Center for Bioactive Food Components, based at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, is part of the UNCG Department of Nutrition.