Immune-microbe interactions early in life: A determinant of health and disease long term

P Brodin - Science, 2022 - science.org
Research on newborn immunity has revealed the importance of cell ontogeny, feto-maternal
tolerance, and the transfer of maternal antibodies. Less is known about postnatal adaptation …

The immunobiology of preterm labor and birth: intra-amniotic inflammation or breakdown of maternal–fetal homeostasis

N Gomez-Lopez, J Galaz, D Miller… - …, 2022 - rep.bioscientifica.com
In brief The syndrome of preterm labor comprises multiple established and novel etiologies.
This review summarizes the distinct immune mechanisms implicated in preterm labor and …

Viable bacterial colonization is highly limited in the human intestine in utero

E Rackaityte, J Halkias, EM Fukui, VF Mendoza… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Mucosal immunity develops in the human fetal intestine by 11–14 weeks of gestation, yet
whether viable microbes exist in utero and interact with the intestinal immune system is …

Pathogenesis of preterm birth: bidirectional inflammation in mother and fetus

ES Green, PC Arck - Seminars in immunopathology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Preterm birth (PTB) complicates 5–18% of pregnancies globally and is a leading
cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Most PTB is spontaneous and idiopathic …

The maternal gut microbiome in pregnancy: implications for the develo** immune system

O Koren, L Konnikova, P Brodin, IU Mysorekar… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The gut microbiome has important roles in host metabolism and immunity, and microbial
dysbiosis affects human physiology and health. Maternal immunity and microbial …

Mechanisms of fetal T cell tolerance and immune regulation

E Rackaityte, J Halkias - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The develo** human fetus generates both tolerogenic and protective immune responses
in response to the unique requirements of gestation. Thus, a successful human pregnancy …

Vertically transferred maternal immune cells promote neonatal immunity against early life infections

IA Stelzer, C Urbschat, S Schepanski, K Thiele… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian pregnancy, immune cells are vertically transferred from mother to fetus.
The functional role of these maternal microchimeric cells (MMc) in the offspring is mostly …

Antibiotic administration can eradicate intra-amniotic infection or intra-amniotic inflammation in a subset of patients with preterm labor and intact membranes

BH Yoon, R Romero, JY Park, KJ Oh, JH Lee… - American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Intra-amniotic infection is present in 10% of patients with an episode of preterm
labor, and is a risk factor for impending preterm delivery and neonatal morbidity/mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages exert homeostatic actions in pregnancy to protect against preterm birth and fetal inflammatory injury

N Gomez-Lopez, V Garcia-Flores, PY Chin… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Macrophages are commonly thought to contribute to the pathophysiology of preterm labor by
amplifying inflammation—but a protective role has not previously been considered to our …

Training the fetal immune system through maternal inflammation—a layered hygiene hypothesis

AC Apostol, KDC Jensen, AE Beaudin - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last century, the alarming surge in allergy and autoimmune disease has led to the
hypothesis that decreasing exposure to microbes, which has accompanied industrialization …