Lactobacillus Reuteri Feasibility Study on Probiotic Treatment and Perinatal Microbiome

Summary

Investigators want to investigate if the Lactobacillus Reuteri (probiotic bacteria) given to pregnant women can be found in different maternal compartments and in the first stool and oral swab collected immediately after birth of a newborn delivered by cesarean delivery. Investigators also want to explore if exposure to this Lactobacillus Reuteri alters the level of inflammation in different compartments of the mother and the infant.

Timeline

Start

2015-11

Primary completion

2018-01

Completion

2018-01

Publications

• Background Yeganegi M, Leung CG, Martins A, Kim SO, Reid G, Challis JR, Bocking AD. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 stimulates colony-stimulating factor 3 (granulocyte) (CSF3) output in placental trophoblast cells in a fetal sex-dependent manner. Biol Reprod. 2011 Jan;84(1):18-25. doi: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085167. Epub 2010 Sep 1.
• Results Aagaard K, Ma J, Antony KM, Ganu R, Petrosino J, Versalovic J. The placenta harbors a unique microbiome. Sci Transl Med. 2014 May 21;6(237):237ra65. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3008599.
• Results Cobo T, Kacerovsky M, Palacio M, Hornychova H, Hougaard DM, Skogstrand K, Jacobsson B. Intra-amniotic inflammatory response in subgroups of women with preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes. PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43677. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043677. Epub 2012 Aug 20.
• Results Goncalves LF, Chaiworapongsa T, Romero R. Intrauterine infection and prematurity. Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2002;8(1):3-13. doi: 10.1002/mrdd.10008.
• Results Jimenez E, Fernandez L, Marin ML, Martin R, Odriozola JM, Nueno-Palop C, Narbad A, Olivares M, Xaus J, Rodriguez JM. Isolation of commensal bacteria from umbilical cord blood of healthy neonates born by cesarean section. Curr Microbiol. 2005 Oct;51(4):270-4. doi: 10.1007/s00284-005-0020-3. Epub 2005 Sep 20.
• Results Jimenez E, Marin ML, Martin R, Odriozola JM, Olivares M, Xaus J, Fernandez L, Rodriguez JM. Is meconium from healthy newborns actually sterile? Res Microbiol. 2008 Apr;159(3):187-93. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2007.12.007. Epub 2008 Jan 11.
• Results Myhre R, Brantsaeter AL, Myking S, Gjessing HK, Sengpiel V, Meltzer HM, Haugen M, Jacobsson B. Intake of probiotic food and risk of spontaneous preterm delivery. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Jan;93(1):151-7. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.110.004085. Epub 2010 Oct 27.
• Results Brantsaeter AL, Myhre R, Haugen M, Myking S, Sengpiel V, Magnus P, Jacobsson B, Meltzer HM. Intake of probiotic food and risk of preeclampsia in primiparous women: the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Oct 1;174(7):807-15. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwr168. Epub 2011 Aug 5.
• Results Bertelsen RJ, Brantsaeter AL, Magnus MC, Haugen M, Myhre R, Jacobsson B, Longnecker MP, Meltzer HM, London SJ. Probiotic milk consumption in pregnancy and infancy and subsequent childhood allergic diseases. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Jan;133(1):165-71.e1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.07.032. Epub 2013 Sep 10.
• Results Yeganegi M, Watson CS, Martins A, Kim SO, Reid G, Challis JR, Bocking AD. Effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 supernatant and fetal sex on lipopolysaccharide-induced cytokine and prostaglandin-regulating enzymes in human placental trophoblast cells: implications for treatment of bacterial vaginosis and prevention of preterm labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2009 May;200(5):532.e1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.12.032. Epub 2009 Mar 14.

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