[HTML][HTML] A critical assessment of the “sterile womb” and “in utero colonization” hypotheses: implications for research on the pioneer infant microbiome

ME Perez-Mu�oz, MC Arrieta, AE Ramer-Tait, J Walter�- microbiome, 2017 - Springer
After more than a century of active research, the notion that the human fetal environment is
sterile and that the neonate's microbiome is acquired during and after birth was an accepted�…

The infant microbiome development: mom matters

NT Mueller, E Bakacs, J Combellick, Z Grigoryan…�- Trends in molecular�…, 2015 - cell.com
The infant microbiome plays an essential role in human health and its assembly is
determined by maternal–offspring exchanges of microbiota. This process is affected by�…

The composition of the gut microbiota throughout life, with an emphasis on early life

JM Rodr�guez, K Murphy, C Stanton…�- Microbial ecology in�…, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The intestinal microbiota has become a relevant aspect of human health. Microbial
colonization runs in parallel with immune system maturation and plays a role in intestinal�…

[HTML][HTML] Human gut colonisation may be initiated in utero by distinct microbial communities in the placenta and amniotic fluid

MC Collado, S Rautava, J Aakko, E Isolauri…�- Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Interaction with intestinal microbes in infancy has a profound impact on health and disease
in later life through programming of immune and metabolic pathways. We collected maternal�…

Microbiota and neurodevelopmental windows: implications for brain disorders

YE Borre, GW O'Keeffe, G Clarke, C Stanton…�- Trends in molecular�…, 2014 - cell.com
Gut microbiota is essential to human health, playing a major role in the bidirectional
communication between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. The�…

Gut microbiota's effect on mental health: The gut-brain axis

M Clapp, N Aurora, L Herrera, M Bhatia, E Wilen…�- Clinics and�…, 2017 - mdpi.com
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Practice 2017; volume 7:987 Gut microbiota’s effect on mental health: The gut-brain axis Megan�…

[HTML][HTML] Microbial changes during pregnancy, birth, and infancy

M Nuriel-Ohayon, H Neuman, O Koren�- Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Several healthy developmental processes such as pregnancy, fetal development, and infant
development include a multitude of physiological changes: weight gain, hormonal, and�…

[HTML][HTML] Mom knows best: the universality of maternal microbial transmission

LJ Funkhouser, SR Bordenstein�- PLoS biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The sterile womb paradigm is an enduring premise in biology that human infants are born
sterile. Recent studies suggest that infants incorporate an initial microbiome before birth and�…

[HTML][HTML] Our gut microbiome: the evolving inner self

P Kundu, E Blacher, E Elinav, S Pettersson�- Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The" holobiont" concept, defined as the collective contribution of the eukaryotic and
prokaryotic counterparts to the multicellular organism, introduces a complex definition of�…

[HTML][HTML] Rebuilding the gut microbiota ecosystem

A Gagliardi, V Totino, F Cacciotti, V Iebba…�- International journal of�…, 2018 - mdpi.com
A microbial ecosystem in which bacteria no longer live in a mutualistic association is called
dysbiotic. Gut microbiota dysbiosis is a condition related with the pathogenesis of intestinal�…