Maternal and infant predictors of proinflammatory milk immune activity in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Katherine WanderMasako FujitaSiobhán MattisonMegan GauckMargaret DurisIreen KiweluBlandina T MmbagaPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2024)
The ISOM's capacities for appropriate proinflammatory activity and control of misdirected proinflammatory activity increases with maternal age and decreases with gravidity. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the mother-infant immune axis has evolved to respond to maternal life history characteristics.