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Effects of Intestinal Microbiota on Brain Development in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice.
Scientific reports - 3 Apr 2018
Lu Jing, Lu Lei, Yu Yueyue, Cluette-Brown Joanne, Martin Camilia R, Claud Erika C
Abstract excerpt
Poor growth in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is associated with an increased risk for poor neurodevelopmental outcomes for preterm infants, however the mechanism is unclear. The microbiome has increasingly been recognized as a modifiable environmental factor to influence host development. Here we explore the hypothesis that the microbiome influences both growth phenotype and brain development. A germ free...
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