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- Title
They Are What You Eat: Can Nutritional Factors during Gestation and Early Infancy Modulate the Neonatal Immune Response?
- Authors
Prentice, Sarah
- Abstract
The ontogeny of the human immune system is sensitive to nutrition even in the very early embryo, with both deficiency and excess of macro- and micronutrients being potentially detrimental. Neonates are particularly vulnerable to infectious disease due to the immaturity of the immune system and modulation of nutritional immunity may play a role in this sensitivity. This review examines whether nutrition around the time of conception, throughout pregnancy, and in early neonatal life may impact on the developing infant immune system.
- Subjects
NUTRITION in pregnancy; NEWBORN infant immunology; NEONATAL infections
- Publication
Frontiers in Immunology, 2017, p1
- ISSN
1664-3224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fimmu.2017.01641