Human milk exosomes dampen induced inflammatory response in human intestinal epithelial cells
Bibliographic record
Abstract
After birth, upon exposure to the ex utero environment, the gastrointestinal tract of a newborn transitions from near sterile conditions to being exposed to a plethora of bacteria. In normal, term births the gastrointestinal tract matures through enteral feeds and commensal bacteria colonization. However, premature birth perturbs in utero organ maturation, thus depriving preterm infants of immune tolerance and increasing their susceptibility to gastrointestinal disorders. Human milk is the gold standard of infant nutrition, but in some cases, it is unavailable or insufficient. It is necessary to understand the components of human milk which facilitate development and promote immune tolerance to optimize feeding methods, ensuring best possible outcomes. Human milk exosomes have been shown to have immunomodulatory properties. Previous reports have demonstrated that milk exosomes survive in vivo digestion in animals, in vitro digestion in humans and can be taken up by human intestinal epithelial cells. We hypothesized that exosomes may promote immune tolerance in human intestinal epithelial cells. Exosomes were isolated from human milk through a series of centrifugations and ultracentrifugations. Post‐confluent Caco‐2/15 cells were incubated with either culture medium containing milk exosomes or PBS (control) for 24 hours. Caco‐2/15 cells, once maintained at post‐confluency, recapitulate mid‐gestation small intestine absorptive cells morphologically, functionally and at the gene level. An inflammatory response was induced by incubating the Caco‐2/15 cells with heat‐killed bacteria ( E. coli + S. typhimurium ). Expression of pro‐inflammatory markers, CXCL8, IL‐6 and CXCL10, was significantly decreased in cells pretreated with human milk exosomes compared to the control. Milk exosomes and their cargo caused a dampened immune response in human intestinal epithelial cells, suggesting that they may be promoting immune tolerance in the gastrointestinal tract of newborns. Infants born prematurely would benefit from such effects as their intestine is underdeveloped and more permeable, therefore, more susceptible to react to bacteria, causing an inflammatory cascade that could lead to sepsis. This is a relevant finding in identifying future directions to optimize feeding strategies for preterm infants. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".