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Intrauterine Hypoxia Changed the Colonization of the Gut Microbiota in Newborn Rats

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Long-Term Impact of Childhood Adversity on the Gut Microbiome of Nursing Students

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Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review

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The Microbiome as a Gateway to Prevention of Allergic Disease Development

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Beyond maternal care: The effects of extra-maternal influences within the maternal environment on offspring neurodevelopment and later-life behavior

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Gestational administration of Bifidobacterium dentium results in intergenerational modulation of inflammatory, metabolic, and social behavior

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Altered Gut Microbiome in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Potential Mechanism and Implications for Clinical Intervention

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Perinatal Maternal Stress and Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases in Later Childhood: An Early Life Programming Perspective

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Nurturing development: how a mother's nutrition shapes offspring's brain through the gut

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Microbial reconstitution reverses prenatal stress-induced cognitive impairment and synaptic deficits in rat offspring

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Current Understanding of the Roles of Gut–Brain Axis in the Cognitive Deficits Caused by Perinatal Stress Exposure

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Microbiome–Maternal Tract Interactions in Women with Recurrent Implantation Failure

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The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis: A New Window to View the Impact of Prenatal Stress on Early Neurodevelopment

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Gut Feelings

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Differences in the Composition of Vaginal Microbiota between Women Exhibiting Spleen-Deficiency Syndrome and Women with Damp-Heat Syndrome, Two of the Most Common Syndromes of Vaginitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Influence of Maternal Stress during Pregnancy on Child’s Neurodevelopment

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Vaginal microbiome and recurrent pregnancy loss

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Vaginal Microbiota Diversity in Response to Lipopolysaccharide in Gilts Housed Under Three Housing Systems

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Altered Gut Microbiome in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Potential Mechanism and Implications for Clinical Intervention

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Lifestyle Factors Affecting the Gut Microbiota’s Relationship with Type 1 Diabetes

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GePMI: A statistical model for personal intestinal microbiome identification

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Affective Symptoms in Pregnancy are Associated with the Vaginal Microbiome

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Microbiome Mediates Development of PTSD and ResiliencePreprint

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The Contribution of the Gut-Brain-Microbiota Axis to Brain Health Throughout the Lifespan

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A Vagina Monologue: Mom's Stress, Bugs, and Baby's Brain

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The Medium Is the Message: Defining a “Normal” Vaginal Microbiome in Healthy Reproductive-Age Women

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The vaginal microbiome in pregnant women: knowledge gaps in relation to clinical relevance

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Sex- and Gender-related Issues of Gut Microbiota in Gastrointestinal Tract Diseases

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Development programming: Stress during gestation alters offspring development in sheep

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The Human Vaginal Microbiome

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Gut microbiota alterations modulate high-fat diet-induced precocious puberty

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Prenatal and Early Postnatal Influences on Neurodevelopment: The Role of Epigenetics

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The “systems approach” to treating the brain: opportunities in developmental psychopharmacology

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La vaginose bactérienne en 10 questions

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A gastrointestinal nematode in pregnant and lactating mice alters maternal and neonatal microbiomes

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The role of neighborhood deprivation in the cervicovaginal microbiota

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Enduring Behavioral and Brain Impacts of Prenatal Stress and Childhood Adversity and Their Potential Multigenerational Consequences

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The gut and vaginal microbiome profiles of pregnant sows and their contribution to neonatal piglet gut microbiome development

Kwawukume, A. (2017) · Mspace (University of Manitoba) · Cited by 4

Targeting gut dysbiosis as a means to enhance recovery from surgical brain injury

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Psychobiotics in Health, Longevity, and Neurological Disorders

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Тhe problem of comorbidity in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in women: solutions

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Physical Activity and Dietary Interventions for Mental Health in Ageing and Longevity

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Insights on Fish Gut Microbiome - A Review

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Problematic issues of diagnosis and treatment of vulvovaginitis of mixed bacterial-candidiasis etiology

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A review of international and Russian scientific data on the use of polygynax for the treatment and prevention of patients with nonspecific (aerobic), vulvovaginal candidiasis, and mixed vaginitis

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The impact of gut microbiota on depressive-like behaviors and adult hippocampal neurogenesis requires the endocannabinoid systemPreprint

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The reality of modeling irritable bowel syndrome: progress and challenges

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The association between prenatal and early-life antibiotic use and obesity at 4–5 years in the Born in Bradford birth cohort

Goodwin, L., Badrick, E., Santorelli, G., da Cunha, S. S., Petherick, E., Oddie, S., Pearce, N. E., Wright, J., & Pembrey, L. (2026) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-026-28420-y · Cited by 2

Livestock models of maternal nutrition and developmental programming

Swanson, R. M., Ruiz, B. J. D., Hurlbert, J. L., Diniz, W. J. S., Banerjee, P., Dahlen, C. R., Crouse, M. S., Hauxwell, K. M., Caton, J. S. S., & Reynolds, L. P. (2026) · Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease · doi:10.1017/s2040174426100452 · Cited by 2

Serratia marcescens as a cause of unfavorable outcome in the twin pregnancy

Kljakić, D., Milosavljević, M. Z., Jovanović, M., Popović, V. Č., & Raičević, S. (2020) · Open Medicine · doi:10.1515/med-2021-0205 · Cited by 2

Colorectal Diseases and Gut Microbiome

Kim, N. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0130-8_6 · Cited by 2

Shell bacterial community dynamics suggest that American lobster (Homarus americanus) impoundment shell disease is caused by a dysbiosis

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Maternal Stress and Maternal Microbiome Manipulations Remodel Offspring Medial Prefrontal Cortex in a Sex‐Dependent Manner

Gohmann, L., Cusick, J. A., Demas, G. E., & Wellman, C. L. (2025) · Developmental Neurobiology · doi:10.1002/dneu.22971 · Cited by 1

RNA in Plasma Extracellular Vesicles of Adolescent Rhesus Macaques Reveals Immune, Bioenergetic, and Microbial Imprints of Early-Life Adversity: An Exploratory Analysis

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