An exposome perspective: Early-life events and immune development in a changing world

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 24-40

  Renz, Harald ^a,d   Holt, Patrick G ^b   Inouye, Michael ^c   Logan, Alan C ^d   Prescott, Susan L ^d,e   Sly, Peter D ^f  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d World Universities Network (WUN)   (United States)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

allergy protection; antibiotics; biodiversity; colonization; cytokines; developmental origins of health and disease; ecosystems; endocrine disrupting chemicals; Environmental microbes; environmental toxicology; inflammation; noncommunicable diseases; placental microbiome; prevention; vaginal microbiome

Indexed keywords

PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; BIOINFORMATICS; DIET; DYSBIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

ANIMALS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 85028648491     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.05.015     Document Type: Review

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