“…The internalization across the intestinal epithelium of a wide variety of intact proteins (e.g., peroxidase [Rombout et al, 1985;McLean and Ash, 1986;McLean and Ash, 1987]; human, bovine, and salmon growth hormone [Le Bail et al, 1989;Moriyama et al, 1990;Hertz et al, 1991]; insulin [Hertz et al, 1992;Vera et al, 1993]; IgG [Nakamura et al, 1990;Nakamura et al, 1998]; apolipoprotein A-I [Vera et al, 1992]; and lactoferrin [Sakai et al, 1995]) has been demonstrated in several teleost fish species. Most of these studies were designed to demonstrate that after oral or anal administration of several proteins of biologic interest, they could reach the systemic circulation retaining their biologic activities.…”