Publications by authors named "F M Galvan-Rodriguez"
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- Human milk is the ideal nutrition for infants, but when breastfeeding isn't feasible, pasteurized milk from human milk banks is the next best option; however, little research exists on how pasteurization affects the bacterial microbiota in human milk.
- This study aimed to compare the bacterial composition and diversity in milk from Mexican mothers both before and after Holder pasteurization using advanced DNA sequencing techniques.
- Results showed that pasteurization actually increased bacterial diversity, with specific bacteria thriving post-treatment that pose no risk to infants, indicating that the pasteurization process is safe and beneficial.
Obesity and overweight are health problems of multifactorial etiology, which may include changes in the microbiome. In Mexico, more than 30 % of the child population between 5 and 11 years of age suffer from being overweight or are obese, which makes it a public health issue in progress. The purpose of this work was to measure the short-chain fatty acid concentration by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and to characterize the bacterial diversity by ion torrent semiconductor sequencing, of 16S rDNA libraries prepared from stools collected from a sample of well-characterized Mexican children for normal weight, overweight, and obese conditions by anthropometric and biochemical criteria.
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