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Infant Gut Microbiota: Developmental Influences and Health Outcomes

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Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects ((DIPR,volume 37))

Abstract

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

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    Kathryn B.H. Clancy

  2. , Department of HUman Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, 02138, Massachusetts, USA

    Katie Hinde

  3. , Comparative Primate Biology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, 60612, Illinois, USA

    Julienne N. Rutherford

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Martin, M.A., Sela, D.A. (2013). Infant Gut Microbiota: Developmental Influences and Health Outcomes. In: Clancy, K., Hinde, K., Rutherford, J. (eds) Building Babies. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_11

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