The gut maternal microbiome, which refers to the collection of microorganisms that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of pregnant women, plays an essential role in the health of both mother and infant. Recent research has focused on understanding the impact of the maternal gut microbiome on pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, gestational diabetes and maternal immune system development.
Advances in sequencing technologies have enabled the identification of specific bacterial taxa and functional pathways that are associated with pregnancy outcomes. Moreover, studies have revealed that maternal gut microbiome is not static, but rather undergoes dynamic changes throughout pregnancy and in response to various environment factors.
Understanding the gut maternal microbiome has important implications for maternal and infant health and may lead to the development of personalized approaches to optimize pregnancy outcomes. Several subtopics are relevant to the gut maternal microbiome, including the role of maternal diet and lifestyle factors in shaping the microbiome, the potential for interventions to modulate the microbiome and improve pregnancy outcomes, and the impact of the maternal microbiome on infant health and development.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions of any type (clinical trial, correction, editorial, general commentary, hypothesis & theory, methods, mini review, opinion, original research, perspective, policy and practice reviews, review, study protocol, systematic review, technology and code) on topics around Gut Maternal Microbiome, including but not limited to:
- Interplay between maternal microbiome and placental development;
- Association between maternal microbiome and neurodevelopment of offspring;
- The influence of diet on gut microbiome of pregnant women;
- Gut maternal microbiome mechanistic insights;
- Interplay between maternal gut microbiome and infant gut microbiome,
- Maternal prebiotic supplementation.
Keywords:
maternal gut microbiome, pregnancy, maternal immune system, environmental factors, infant gut microbiome
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The gut maternal microbiome, which refers to the collection of microorganisms that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of pregnant women, plays an essential role in the health of both mother and infant. Recent research has focused on understanding the impact of the maternal gut microbiome on pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, gestational diabetes and maternal immune system development.
Advances in sequencing technologies have enabled the identification of specific bacterial taxa and functional pathways that are associated with pregnancy outcomes. Moreover, studies have revealed that maternal gut microbiome is not static, but rather undergoes dynamic changes throughout pregnancy and in response to various environment factors.
Understanding the gut maternal microbiome has important implications for maternal and infant health and may lead to the development of personalized approaches to optimize pregnancy outcomes. Several subtopics are relevant to the gut maternal microbiome, including the role of maternal diet and lifestyle factors in shaping the microbiome, the potential for interventions to modulate the microbiome and improve pregnancy outcomes, and the impact of the maternal microbiome on infant health and development.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions of any type (clinical trial, correction, editorial, general commentary, hypothesis & theory, methods, mini review, opinion, original research, perspective, policy and practice reviews, review, study protocol, systematic review, technology and code) on topics around Gut Maternal Microbiome, including but not limited to:
- Interplay between maternal microbiome and placental development;
- Association between maternal microbiome and neurodevelopment of offspring;
- The influence of diet on gut microbiome of pregnant women;
- Gut maternal microbiome mechanistic insights;
- Interplay between maternal gut microbiome and infant gut microbiome,
- Maternal prebiotic supplementation.
Keywords:
maternal gut microbiome, pregnancy, maternal immune system, environmental factors, infant gut microbiome
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.