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Gastroenterol Hepatol 2021 Feb 27. Epub 2021 Feb 27.

Ecología Microbiana, Nutrición y Salud. Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IATA-CSIC), Valencia, Spain.

The human body is populated by myriads of microorganisms throughout its surface and in the cavities connected to the outside. The microbial colonisers of the intestine (microbiota) are a functional and non-expendable part of the human organism: they provide genes (microbiome) and additional functions to the resources of our species and participate in multiple physiological processes (somatic development, nutrition, immunity, etc.). Read More

Mol Nutr Food Res 2021 Mar 2:e2000863. Epub 2021 Mar 2.

Laboratory of Nutrition and Cancer, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.

Scope: Nutritional supplementation of the maternal diet can modify the cancer susceptibility in adult offspring. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of a fish-oil diet administered to a long-term, during pre-mating, gestation and lactation, in reducing cancer-cachexia damages in adult Walker-256 tumour-bearing offspring METHODS AND RESULTS: Female rats received control or fish oil diet during pre-mating, gestation, and lactation. After weaning, male offspring were fed the control diet until adulthood and distributed in (C) control adult-offspring; (W) adult tumour-bearing offspring; (OC) adult-offspring of maternal fish oil diet; (WOC) adult tumour-bearing offspring of maternal fish oil diet groups. Read More