ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2024
Developmental Programming of the Fetal Immune System by Maternal Western-Style Diet: Mechanisms and Implications for Disease Pathways in the Offspring.
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- Unhealthy Diets, Unhealthy Futures: How Modern Eating Patterns Endanger Maternal and Offspring Health.Nutrients · 2026Review
- The uterine and vaginal microbiome in assisted reproductive technologies: implications for maternal and offspring outcomes.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2026Review
- The Role of Exosomes in Offspring Metabolic Programming in Gestational Diabetes: Mechanisms and Potential Applications.International journal of biological sciences · 2026Review
- The potential role of trained immunity in HIV-associated atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Gut microbiome-epigenetic crosstalk in obesity and type 2 diabetes: mechanisms, evidence, and translational opportunities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
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- Obesity in reproduction: Mechanisms from fertilization to post‑uterine development (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Maternal consumption of urbanized diet compromises early-life health in association with gut microbiota.Gut microbes · 2025Review
- Mechanistic Pathways of Gestational Obesity: Implications for Maternal and Offspring Health: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Boosting Immunity Through Nutrition and Gut Health: A Narrative Review on Managing Allergies and Multimorbidity.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Impact of Microbiota Diversity on Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Impact of maternal organic food consumption and diet quality during pregnancy on offspring's risk of inflammatory bowel disease: findings from a Danish National Birth Cohort Study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Short-chain fatty acids: key antiviral mediators of gut microbiota.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- The Impact of Parental Preconception Nutrition, Body Weight, and Exercise Habits on Offspring Health Outcomes: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Diet and Disease Development: Present and Future.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Maternal Diet during Pregnancy Alters the Metabolites in Relation to Metabolic and Neurodegenerative Diseases in Young Adult Offspring.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Key questions and gaps in understanding adipose tissue macrophages and early-life metabolic programming.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2024Review
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Abstract
Maternal obesity and over/undernutrition can have a long-lasting impact on offspring health during critical periods in the first 1000 days of life. Children born to mothers with obesity have reduced immune responses to stimuli which increase susceptibility to infections. Recently, maternal western-style diets (WSDs), high in fat and simple sugars, have been associated with skewing neonatal immune cell development, and recent evidence suggests that dysregulation of innate immunity in early life has long-term consequences on metabolic diseases and behavioral disorders in later life. Several factors contribute to abnormal innate immune tolerance or trained immunity, including changes in gut microbiota, metabolites, and epigenetic modifications. Critical knowledge gaps remain regarding the mechanisms whereby these factors impact fetal and postnatal immune cell development, especially in precursor stem cells in bone marrow and fetal liver. Components of the maternal microbiota that are transferred from mothers consuming a WSD to their offspring are understudied and identifying cause and effect on neonatal innate and adaptive immune development needs to be refined. Tools including single-cell RNA-sequencing, epigenetic analysis, and spatial location of specific immune cells in liver and bone marrow are critical for understanding immune system programming. Considering the vital role immune function plays in offspring health, it will be important to understand how maternal diets can control developmental programming of innate and adaptive immunity.
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