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The extra-lymphoid compartment of breast milk: Not a simple transfer of passive immunization.

Salvatore ChirumboloAntonio VellaDiego Giampietro Peroni
Published in: Journal of leukocyte biology (2020)
Discussion on how breast milk shows similarity to the immune gut micro-environment, creating a sort of immune "extended gut" between mother and child; helps advance the newborn's immune endowment by further tuning mucosal immunity and CD8 memory cells in the early life intestine.
Keyphrases
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