Publications by authors named "Nienke Jacobine Mekkes"
Microbiome Res Rep
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- Microbial colonization of the neonatal gut is essential for immune system development, with human milk being the optimal nutrition due to its prebiotic and probiotic properties.
- When exclusive breastfeeding isn’t an option, infant formula with probiotics can help support microbiome development, but understanding how different formula components affect specific probiotic strains is limited.
- A study examined how different protein forms (intact vs. extensively hydrolyzed) in infant formula influenced the metabolic activity of two probiotics using a model of infant gut microbiota, finding that both protein types supported metabolic activity, but with variations depending on the probiotic strain.
