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ADVANCES IN NUTRITION
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages 779-784Publisher
AMER SOC NUTRITION-ASN
DOI: 10.3945/an.114.007229
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- American Society for Nutrition (ASN)
- ASN Lactation RIS
- Medela, Inc
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain [AGL2013-41980-P]
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Human milk is a source of bacteria to the infant gut; however, the origin of milk bacteria, as well as their impact on neonatal gut microbiota establishment, remains largely unknown. In the past years, results provided by different research groups suggest that certain bacteria from the maternal gastrointestinal tract could translocate through a mechanism involving mononuclear immune cells, migrate to the mammary glands via an endogenous cellular route (the bacterial entero-mammary pathway), and subsequently colonize the gastrointestinal tract of the breast-fed neonate. If such findings are confirmed in the future, we could exert a positive influence on infant health by modulating the maternal gut microbiota.
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