Gut microbiota development: influence of diet from infancy to toddlerhood

MF Laursen - Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2021 - karger.com
Early life is a critical period as our gut microbiota establishes here and may impact both
current and future health. Thus, it is of importance to understand how different factors govern …

Bovine colostrum and its potential for human health and nutrition

A Arslan, M Kaplan, H Duman, A Bayraktar… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Colostrum is the first milk produced post-partum by mammals and is compositionally distinct
from mature milk. Bovine colostrum has a long history of consumption by humans, and there …

[HTML][HTML] Bifidobacteria-mediated immune system imprinting early in life

BM Henrick, L Rodriguez, T Lakshmikanth, C Pou… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune-microbe interactions early in life influence the risk of allergies, asthma, and other
inflammatory diseases. Breastfeeding guides healthier immune-microbe relationships by …

Indole-3-lactic acid associated with Bifidobacterium-dominated microbiota significantly decreases inflammation in intestinal epithelial cells

AM Ehrlich, AR Pacheco, BM Henrick, D Taft, G Xu… - BMC microbiology, 2020 - Springer
Background Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis (B. infantis) is a commensal bacterium
that colonizes the gastrointestinal tract of breast-fed infants. B. infantis can efficiently utilize …

Human milk oligosaccharides modify the strength of priority effects in the Bifidobacterium community assembly during infancy

MF Laursen, HM Roager - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Despite the significant role of the gut microbiota in infant health and development, little is
known about the ecological processes determining gut microbial community assembly …

Bifidobacterium mechanisms of immune modulation and tolerance

SJ Gavzy, A Kensiski, ZL Lee, EF Mongodin, B Ma… - Gut …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Bifidobacterium is a widely distributed commensal bacterial genus that displays beneficial
pro-homeostatic and anti-inflammatory immunomodulatory properties. Depletion or absence …

Breastfeeding enrichment of B. longum subsp. infantis mitigates the effect of antibiotics on the microbiota and childhood asthma risk

DLY Dai, C Petersen, C Hoskinson, KL Del Bel… - Med, 2023 - cell.com
Background Early antibiotic exposure is linked to persistent disruption of the infant gut
microbiome and subsequent elevated pediatric asthma risk. Breastfeeding acts as a primary …

Infant gut microbiome is enriched with Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis in Old Order Mennonites with traditional farming lifestyle

AE Seppo, K Bu, M Jumabaeva, J Thakar… - Allergy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Growing up on traditional, single‐family farms is associated with protection
against asthma in school age, but the mechanisms against early manifestations of atopic …

The early life education of the immune system: Moms, microbes and (missed) opportunities

N Jain - Gut Microbes, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The early life immune system is characterized by unique developmental milestones.
Functionally diverse immune cells arise from distinct waves of hematopoietic stem cells, a …

Bifidobacterium longum Subspecies infantis (B. infantis) in Pediatric Nutrition: Current State of Knowledge

M Chichlowski, N Shah, JL Wampler, SS Wu… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since originally isolated in 1899, the genus Bifidobacterium has been demonstrated to
predominate in the gut microbiota of breastfed infants and to benefit the host by accelerating …