The role of probiotics and postbiotics in modulating the gut microbiome-immune system axis in the pediatric age

Autor: Veronica Giglio, Laura Carucci, Roberto Berni Canani, Serena Coppola, Jon A. Vanderhoof, Anna Luzzetti
Přispěvatelé: Carucci, Laura, Coppola, Serena, Luzzetti, Anna, Giglio, Veronica, Vanderhoof, Jon, Berni Canani, Roberto
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Minerva Pediatrics. 73
ISSN: 2724-5780
2724-5276
DOI: 10.23736/s2724-5276.21.06188-0
Popis: The complex microbial community of the gut microbiome plays a fundamental role in driving development and function of the human immune system. This phenomenon is named the gut microbiome-immune system axis. When operating optimally, this axis influences both innate and adaptive immunity, which orchestrates the maintenance of crucial elements of host-microorganisms symbiosis, in a dialogue that modulates responses in the most beneficial way. Growing evidence reveals some environmental factors which can positively and negatively modulate the gut microbiome-immune system axis with consequences on the body health status. Several conditions which increasingly affect the pediatric age, such as allergies, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, arise from a failure of the gut microbiome-immune system axis. Prenatal or postnatal modulation of this axis through some interventional strategies (including diet, probiotics and postbiotics), may lead to a positive gene-environment interaction with improvement of immune-modulatory effects and final positive effect on human health. In particular probiotics and postbiotics exerting pleiotropic regulatory actions on the gut-microbiome-immune system axis provide an innovative preventive and therapeutic strategy for many pediatric conditions.
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