Impact of Early-Life Exposures on Immune Maturation and Susceptibility to Disease

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 684-696

  Gollwitzer, Eva S ^a   Marsland, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE MATURATION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOMODULATION; LABOR; MATERNAL FARM EXPOSURE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MATERNAL STRESS; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; REVIEW; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84946721107     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: 14714981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2015.09.009     Document Type: Review

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