About the Authors

Aurelie Chanson-Rolle

aurelie.chanson-rolle@vab-nutrition.com

Affiliation VAB-nutrition, Clermont-Ferrand, France

François Aubin

Affiliation Venn Life Sciences, Paris, France

Veronique Braesco

Affiliation VAB-nutrition, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Toshimitsu Hamasaki

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medical Technology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Masafumi Kitakaze

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine and Development, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

ACR, VB and FA received payment from Calpis for performing the systematic review. MK received a grant to perform animal and cellular experiments with lactotripeptides under a collaborative research agreement with Calpis. ACR and VB are employed by VAB-nutrition. FA is employed by Venn Life Sciences. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACR VB TH MK. Performed the experiments: ACR FA VB TH MK. Analyzed the data: ACR FA. Wrote the paper: ACR FA VB TH MK.