Vitamin D status in early life has been linked to the risk of allergic disease in multiple observational studies.
The proposal that dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) enhances neurocognitive functioning in term infants is controversial.
With more than one in four Australian children overweight or obese, and the significant risks this poses for health problems like asthma, depression,…
This review aims to summarise and evaluate the potential mechanisms and evidence for the role of prenatal infection on the central nervous system, an…
Antioxidant intakes in pregnancy may influence fetal immune programming and the risk of allergic disease.
One explanation for the high burden of allergic and autoimmune diseases in industrialized countries is inappropriate immune development under modern.…
Maternal fish oil supplementation during pregnancy has been associated with altered infant immune responses and a reduced risk of infant sensitizatio…
Studies addressing the ontogeny of the innate immune system in early life have reported mainly on Toll-like receptor (TLR) responses in infants livin…
We compared neonatal T reg from children born in western conditions (Australia) with those of neonates born in high microbial conditions (Papua New G…
Suggests that IL-1R1 expression provides an additional level of Myd88-dependent signaling during this period of heighted susceptibility to infection.