ArticleMicrobiome2021
Group therapy on in utero colonization: seeking common truths and a way forward.
Article in Microbiome, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Does the Amniotic Fluid of Mice Contain a Viable Microbiota?Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
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- Microbiome or no microbiome: are we looking at the prenatal environment through the right lens?Microbiome · 2021Article
- The Composition of the Microbiota in the Full-Term Fetal Gut and Amniotic Fluid: A Bovine Cesarean Section Study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- When to suspect contamination rather than colonization - lessons from a putative fetal sheep microbiome.Gut microbesArticle
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Abstract
The human microbiome refers to the genetic composition of microorganisms in a particular location in the human body. Emerging evidence over the past many years suggests that the microbiome constitute drivers of human fate almost at par with our genome and epigenome. It is now well accepted after decades of disbelief that a broad understanding of human development, health, physiology, and disease requires understanding of the microbiome along with the genome and epigenome. We are learning daily of the interdependent relationships between microbiome/microbiota and immune responses, mood, cancer progression, response to therapies, aging, obesity, antibiotic usage, and overusage and much more. The next frontier in microbiome field is understanding when does this influence begin? Does the human microbiome initiate at the time of birth or are developing human fetuses already primed with microbes and their products in utero. In this commentary, we reflect on evidence gathered thus far on this question and identify the unknown common truths. We present a way forward to continue understanding our microbial colleagues and our interwoven fates.
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