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Prebiotic Supplementation during Lactation Affects Microbial Colonization in Postnatal-Growth-Restricted Mice
- Lucie Marousez,
- Léa Chantal Tran,
- Edwina Micours,
- Matthieu Antoine,
- Frédéric Gottrand,
- Jean Lesage and
- Delphine Ley
Background: An inadequate perinatal nutritional environment can alter the maturation of the intestinal barrier and promote long-term pathologies such as metabolic syndrome or chronic intestinal diseases. The intestinal microbiota seems to play a dete...