Maternal microbes support fetal brain wiring

Katherine R. Meckel and Drew D. Kiraly ()

Nature, 2020, vol. 586, issue 7828, 203-205

Abstract: Resident bacteria in the maternal gut are important for normal fetal brain development in mice. It emerges that this effect is driven by bacterially produced metabolite molecules that signal to the fetal brain.

Keywords: Microbiology; Neuroscience; Developmental biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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