ArticleAllergy2023
Early-life fecal metabolomics of food allergy.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Risk Factors for the Development of Food Allergy in Infants and Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Precision Medicine in Plant Food Allergy: a Systematic Review of Biomarkers Under a Clinical Approach.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026Pooled it
- Gut microbial bile and amino acid metabolism associate with peanut oral immunotherapy failure.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- Emerging Biomarkers in Pediatric Food Allergy: From Mechanistic Endotyping to Precision Diagnosis and Therapeutic Monitoring.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- OVA-Induced Food Allergy Leads to Neurobehavioral Changes in Mice and the Potential Role of Gut Microbiota and Metabolites Dysbiosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Associations between dietary fibers and gut microbiome composition in the EDIA longitudinal infant cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Immunomodulatory metabolites in IgE-mediated food allergy and oral immunotherapy outcomes based on metabolomic profiling.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2024Article
- Interpreting epidemiologic distribution of total and specific IgE levels for food allergy in Southern China from 2004 to 2023: understanding the mechanisms and focusing on prevention.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Metabolomic profiles during early childhood and risk of food allergies and asthma in multiethnic children from a prospective birth cohort.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2024Article
- Age-specific Metabolomic profiles in children with food allergy.Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) · 2024Article
- Association of Metabolites, Nutrients, and Toxins in Maternal and Cord Serum with Asthma, IgE, SPT, FeNO, and Lung Function in Offspring.Metabolites · 2023Article
- The epithelial barrier theory: Development and exacerbation of allergic and other chronic inflammatory diseases.Asia Pacific allergy · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundIntestinal microenvironmental perturbations may increase food allergy risk. We hypothesize that children with clinical food allergy, those with food sensitization, and healthy children can be differentiated by intestinal metabolites in the first years of life.
methodsIn this ancillary analysis of the Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial (VDAART), we performed untargeted metabolomic profiling in 824 stool samples collected at ages 3-6 months, 1 year and 3 years. Subjects included 23 with clinical food allergy at age 3 and/or 6 years, 151 with food sensitization but no clinical food allergy, and 220 controls. We identified modules of correlated, functionally related metabolites and sought associations of metabolite modules and individual metabolites with food allergy/sensitization using regression models.
resultsSeveral modules of functionally related intestinal metabolites were reduced among subjects with food allergy, including bile acids at ages 3-6 months and 1 year, amino acids at age 3-6 months, steroid hormones at 1 year, and sphingolipids at age 3 years. One module primarily containing diacylglycerols was increased in those with food allergy at age 3-6 months. Fecal caffeine metabolites at age 3-6 months, likely derived from breast milk, were increased in those with food allergy and/or sensitization (beta = 5.9, 95% CI 1.0-10.8, p = .02) and were inversely correlated with fecal bile acids and bilirubin metabolites, though maternal plasma caffeine levels were not associated with food allergy and/or sensitization.
conclusionsSeveral classes of bioactive fecal metabolites are associated with food allergy and/or sensitization including bile acids, steroid hormones, sphingolipids, and caffeine metabolites.
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