Infant Gut Microbiota: Developmental Influences and Health Outcomes

摘要: Primates harbor diverse communities of gut bacteria that enhance host energy extraction, regulate metabolism and storage, protect against pathogens, modulate immune responses. The Dynamic host-gut bacterial relationship begins at birth, when maternal environmental colonize sterile infant GI Tracts. Host diet exposure to pathogenic continue influence microbial composition through infancy beyond. During infancy, breast milk promotes the establishment growth beneficial both direct transmission multiple biochemical immunological factors. development integrity during may have implications for primate developmental trajectories after weaning, particularly in relation metabolic functioning later life