Breast milk, a source of beneficial microbes and associated benefits for infant health

KE Lyons, CA Ryan, EM Dempsey, RP Ross, C Stanton - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Human breast milk is considered the optimum feeding regime for newborn infants due to its
ability to provide complete nutrition and many bioactive health factors. Breast feeding is …

Impact of the mother's gut microbiota on infant microbiome and brain development

EA Mady, AS Doghish, WA El-Dakroury… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The link between the gut microbiome and health has recently garnered considerable interest
in its employment for medicinal purposes. Since the early microbiota exhibits more flexibility …

[HTML][HTML] Mother-to-infant microbiota transmission and infant microbiota development across multiple body sites

D Bogaert, GJ Van Beveren, EM de Koff, PL Parga… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Early-life microbiota seeding and subsequent development is crucial to future health.
Cesarean-section (CS) birth, as opposed to vaginal delivery, affects early mother-to-infant …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal fecal microbiota transplantation in cesarean-born infants rapidly restores normal gut microbial development: a proof-of-concept study

K Korpela, O Helve, KL Kolho, T Saisto, K Skogberg… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Infants born by vaginal delivery are colonized with maternal fecal microbes. Cesarean
section (CS) birth disturbs mother-to-neonate transmission. In this study (NCT03568734), we …

Role of the microbiome in human development

MG Dominguez-Bello, F Godoy-Vitorino, R Knight… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
The host-microbiome supraorganism appears to have coevolved and the unperturbed
microbial component of the dyad renders host health sustainable. This coevolution has likely …

Role of human milk bioactives on infants' gut and immune health

LE Carr, MD Virmani, F Rosa, D Munblit… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Exclusive human milk feeding of the newborn is recommended during the first 6 months of
life to promote optimal health outcomes during early life and beyond. Human milk contains a …

Comparison of gut microbiota in exclusively breast-fed and formula-fed babies: a study of 91 term infants

J Ma, Z Li, W Zhang, C Zhang, Y Zhang, H Mei… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
To compare gut microbiota of healthy infants that were exclusively breast-fed or formula-fed,
we recruited 91 infants, who were assigned into three different groups and fed by breast milk …

The human microbiome and child growth–first 1000 days and beyond

RC Robertson, AR Manges, BB Finlay… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
The assembly of microbial communities within the gastrointestinal tract during early life plays
a critical role in immune, endocrine, metabolic, and other host developmental pathways …

Breastmilk feeding practices are associated with the co-occurrence of bacteria in mothers' milk and the infant gut: the CHILD cohort study

K Fehr, S Moossavi, H Sbihi, RCT Boutin, L Bode… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Gut microbiota play a critical role in infant health. It is now accepted that breastmilk contains
live bacteria from endogenous and exogenous sources, but it remains unclear whether …

[HTML][HTML] How biological sex of the host shapes its gut microbiota

F Valeri, K Endres - Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 2021 - Elsevier
The gut microbiota is a complex system, consisting of a dynamic population of
microorganisms, involved in the regulation of the host's homeostasis. A vast number of …