Development of microbiota in infants and its role in maturation of gut mucosa and immune system

C Ximenez, J Torres - Archives of medical research, 2017 - Elsevier
Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota has been associated with increasing numbers of diseases,
including obesity, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, allergy, cancer and even
neurologic or behavioral disorders. The other side of the coin is that a healthy microbiota
leads to a healthy human development, to a mature and well trained immune system and to
an efficient metabolic machinery. What we have learned in adults is in the end the result of a
good start, a programmed, healthy development of the microbiota that must occur in the …