Breast milk calibrates neonatal immune responses to gut bacteria in mice

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center reports that maternal immunoglobulin G (IgG), ingested in the first week of life, restrained microbiota-dependent adaptive immune responses weeks later, after weaning in mice. Investigators identified a critical early-life window when ingested IgG tunes responses to commensal microbes and dietary antigens.

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