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Progesterone Increases Bifidobacterium Relative Abundance during Late Pregnancy

  • Zefat Academic College
  • Bar-Ilan University
  • Poriya Medical Center
  • Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

Nuriel-Ohayon et al. demonstrate a dramatic shift in the gut microbial composition of women and mice during late pregnancy, including an increase in the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium. Using in vitro and in vivo experiments, they show that supplementation of progesterone affects the microbial communities, including increasing the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)730-736.e3
JournalCell Reports
Volume27
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Apr 2019

Bibliographical note

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Funding

O.K. is supported by the Alon fellowship, the Carasso fellowship, and grants funded by IBM , the Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant ( FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG-630956 ), the Israel Science Foundation ( 1001/16 ), the Minerva Foundation , the Israeli Ministry of Health ( 3-0000-10451 ), and the Canadian-Israel Health Initiative , jointly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research , the Israel Science Foundation , the International Development Research Centre , Canada, and the Azrieli Foundation ( 2459/15 ). H.N. is supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science Eshkol scholarship ( 3-11714 ).

FundersFunder number
Canadian-Israel Health Initiative
Israeli Ministry of Science Eshkol scholarship3-11714
International Business Machines CorporationFP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG-630956
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
International Development Research Centre
Minerva Foundation
Israel Science Foundation1001/16
Azrieli Foundation2459/15
Ministry of Health, State of Israel3-0000-10451

    Keywords

    • 16S rRNA
    • Bifidobacterium
    • gut microbiota
    • microbiome
    • pregnancy
    • progesterone

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