Linking human milk oligosaccharide metabolism and early life gut microbiota: bifidobacteria and beyond.
- 2024-03-27
- Review
- Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR 88(1)
- Cathy Lordan
- Aoife K Roche
- Dianne Delsing
- Arjen Nauta
- Andre Groeneveld
- John MacSharry
- Paul D Cotter
- Douwe van Sinderen
- PubMed: 38206006
- DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00094-23
- Low evidence
Certain bifidobacterial species, being among the earliest gut colonizers of breast-fed infants, have an adapted functional capacity to metabolize various HMO structures.
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Small