2018
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32715-5
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Transfer and Integration of Breast Milk Stem Cells to the Brain of Suckling Pups

Abstract: Beside its unique nutritional content breast milk also contains live cells from the mother. Fate of these cells in the offspring has not been adequately described. In this study, we aimed to detect and identify maternal cells in the suckling’s blood and the brain. Green fluorescent protein expressing transgenic female mice (GFP+) were used as foster mothers to breastfeed wildtype newborn pups. One week and two months after the birth, blood samples and brains of the sucklings were analyzed to detect presence of… Show more

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“…Identifying the amount of cortisol that diffuses through the gut may help to further examine the potential effects of this hormone on infant health and behavior. Candidate methods to obtain this information would be to use in vitro evaluation methods to assess the passage of cortisol through the intestinal barrier [64], or in vivo rodent models with labelled cortisol to assess the amount of cortisol that reaches offspring blood circulation and brain [65,66].…”
Section: Plos Onementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Identifying the amount of cortisol that diffuses through the gut may help to further examine the potential effects of this hormone on infant health and behavior. Candidate methods to obtain this information would be to use in vitro evaluation methods to assess the passage of cortisol through the intestinal barrier [64], or in vivo rodent models with labelled cortisol to assess the amount of cortisol that reaches offspring blood circulation and brain [65,66].…”
Section: Plos Onementioning
confidence: 99%
“…It even contains maternal cells that integrate into the infant's gut walls creating localized microchimerism ensuring proper immunity development for the infant (Moles et al., ). Moreover, in mice, maternal milk stem cells were detected in the blood and the brain of the pups after sucking (Aydin, Yigit, Vatandaslar, Erdogan, & Ozturk, ). These cells differentiated into neuronal and glial cells in the progeny confirming previous in vitro experiments where these stem cells differentiated into oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and neurons (Hosseini, Talaei‐Khozani, Sani, & Owrangi, ).…”
Section: Micrornas In Milkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Preclinical studies demonstrate that hBSCs cross the neonatal gut, enter the circulation, and travel into various organs where they differentiate and become functional. 62,63 Stem cells are destroyed by freezing or heating MOM, supporting the importance of feeding fresh MOM to infants.…”
Section: Bioactive Componentsmentioning
confidence: 99%