How nutrition and the maternal microbiota shape the neonatal immune system

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 508-517

  Macpherson, Andrew J ^a   De Agüero, Mercedes Gomez ^a   Ganal Vonarburg, Stephanie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C TYPE LECTIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LECTIN; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; SECRETORY COMPONENT; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT DISEASE; BREAST MILK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DECIDUALIZATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENOME IMPRINTING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LACTATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; DIET; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; IMMUNOLOGY; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; DIET; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 85026363130     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.58     Document Type: Review

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