Trainee Expansion Program (TEP)

Esquerra-Zwiers A, Vroom A, Geddes D, Lai CT. Use of a portable point-of-care instrumentation to measure human milk sodium and potassium concentrations. Breastfeed Med [Internet]. 2022;17(1):46–51. DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2021.0046

George AD, Burugupalli S, Paul S, Mansell T, Burgner D, Meikle PJ. The role of human milk lipids and lipid metabolites in protecting the infant against non-communicable disease. Int J Mol Sci. 2022;23(14):7490. DOI: 10.3390/ijms23147490

Gridneva Z, George AD, Suwaydi MA, Sindi AS, Jie M, Stinson LF, et al. Environmental determinants of human milk composition in relation to health outcomes. Acta Paediatr [Internet]. 2022. DOI: 10.1111/apa.16263

George A, Gay M, Selvalatchmanan J, Torta F, Bendt A, Wenk M et al. Healthy Breastfeeding Infants Consume Different Quantities of Milk Fat Globule Membrane Lipids. Nutrients. 2021;13(9):2951. DOI: 10.3390/nu13092951

Huang W, Cho KY, Meng D, Walker WA. The impact of indole-3-lactic acid on immature intestinal innate immunity and development: a transcriptomic analysis. Sci Rep. 2021;11(1):8088. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87353-1

Gao Y, Davis B, Zhu W, Zheng N, Meng D, Walker WA. Short-chain fatty acid butyrate, a breast milk metabolite, enhances immature intestinal barrier function genes in response to inflammation in vitro and in vivo. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2021;320(4):G521–30. DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00279.2020

Zheng N, Gao Y, Zhu W, Meng D, Walker WA. Short chain fatty acids produced by colonizing intestinal commensal bacterial interaction with expressed breast milk are anti-inflammatory in human immature enterocytes. PLoS One. 2020;15(2):e0229283. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229283

Meng D, Sommella E, Salviati E, Campiglia P, Ganguli K, Djebali K et al. Indole-3-lactic acid, a metabolite of tryptophan, secreted by Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis is anti-inflammatory in the immature intestine. Pediatr Res. 2020 Jan 16. DOI: 10.1038/s41390-019-0740-x. [Epub ahead of print]

Senger S, Ingano L, Freire R, Anselmo A, Zhu W, R Sadreyev et al. Human fetal-derived enterospheres provide insights on intestinal development and a novel model to study Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC). Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Jan 31;5(4):549-568. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2018.01.014. eCollection 2018.

Jiang F*, Meng D*, Zhu W, Weng M, Kasper DL, Walker WA. The symbiotic bacterial surface factor polysaccharide A on bacteroides fragilis Inhibits IL-1 β-induced inflammation in human fetal enterocytes via toll receptors 2 and 4. Plos One. 2017;12(3):e0172738. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172738. eCollection 2017. (*shared authorship)

Gregory KE*, Samuel BS*, Houghteling P, Shan G, Ausubel FM, Sadreyev RI et al. Influence of maternal breast milk ingestion on acquisition of the intestinal microbiome in preterm infants. Microbiome. 2016;4(1):68. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-016-0214-x. (*shared authorship)

Walker WA, Iyengar RS. Breast milk, microbiota and intestinal immune homeostasis. Pediatr Res. 2014;77(1-2):220-228. DOI: 10.1038/pr.2014.160. Epub 2014 Oct 13.

Jeurink PV, van Bergenhenegouwen J, Jiménez E, Knippels LM, Fernández L, Garssen J et al. Human milk: a source of more life than we imagine. Benef Microbes. 2013;4(1):17-30. DOI: 10.3920/BM2012.0040.

Chichlowski M, De Lartigue G, German JB, Raybould HE, Mills DA. Bifidobacteria isolated from infants and cultured on human milk oligosaccharides affect intestinal epithelial function. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2012;55(3):321-327. DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e31824fb899.

Schwartz S, Friedberg I, Ivanov IV, Davidson LA, Goldsby JS, Dahl DB et al. A metagenomic study of diet dependent interaction between gut microbiota and host in infants reveals differences in immune response. Genome Biol. 2012;13(4):R32. DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-4-r32.

Rautava S, Walker WA. Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine founder’s lecture 2008: Breastfeeding – An extrauterine link between mother and child. Breastfeed Med. 2009;4(1):3-10. DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2009.0004.