Trial reportNutrients2017
Maternal Prebiotic Ingestion Increased the Number of Fecal Bifidobacteria in Pregnant Women but Not in Their Neonates Aged One Month.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mother-to-infant vertical transmission in early life: a systematic review and proportional meta-analysis of Bifidobacterium strain transmissibility.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Pooled it
- Fructooligosaccharides: From Breast Milk Components to Potential Supplements. A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of Maternal Nutritional Supplementation during Pregnancy and Lactation on the Infant Gut or Breastmilk Microbiota: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of β-Fructans Fiber on Bowel Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of Synbiotics among Constipated Adults in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia-A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- Maternal probiotic and prebiotic supplementation on glucose metabolism in pregnant women and their offspring: effects and related mechanisms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Gut Health for Two: the Critical Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Pregnancy and Lactation.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Effects of fructo-oligosaccharides on genitourinary tract infections and birth outcomes in pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Fructooligosaccharides for Relieving Functional Constipation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Early-Life Supplementation Enhances Gastrointestinal Immunity and Microbiota in Young Rats.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Nutritional Approaches Targeting Gut Microbiota in Oxidative-Stress-Associated Metabolic Syndrome: Focus on Early Life Programming.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Review
- The Use of Prebiotics from Pregnancy and Its Complications: Health for Mother and Offspring-A Narrative Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Maternal Supplementation of Probiotics, Prebiotics or Postbiotics to Prevent Offspring Metabolic Syndrome: The Gap between Preclinical Results and Clinical Translation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Article
- Protective Effect of Luminal Uric Acid Against Indomethacin-Induced Enteropathy: Role of Antioxidant Effect and Gut Microbiota.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2022Article
- Cardiovascular Diseases of Developmental Origins: Preventive Aspects of Gut Microbiota-Targeted Therapy.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Impact of Early Life Nutrition on Children's Immune System and Noncommunicable Diseases Through Its Effects on the Bacterial Microbiome, Virome and Mycobiome.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- Observational
- Depression Promotes the Onset of Irritable Bowel Syndrome through Unique Dysbiosis in Rats.Gut and liver · 2019Article
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14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) can selectively stimulate the growth of bifidobacteria. Here, we investigated the effect of maternal FOS ingestion on maternal and neonatal gut bifidobacteria. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, we administered 8 g/day of FOS or sucrose to 84 women from the 26th week of gestation to one month after delivery. The bifidobacteria count was detected using quantitative PCR in maternal (26 and 36 weeks of gestation) and neonatal (one month after delivery) stools. Maternal stool frequency was recorded from 24 to 36 weeks of gestation. The number of fecal
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