“Listening in” ‐ The cross‐talk between mother and infant through exosomal microRNAs in breast milk
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Breast milk is an intricate source of key nutritional complexes required to nourish an infant as well as facilitate the development of the infant's immune system. During the postnatal period, the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) matures following enteral feeds and colonization with commensal bacteria. The development of the GIT could be delayed or altered in a premature infant, thus predisposing the infant to inflammatory diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is the leading cause of death among premature infants. The pathophysiology is currently unknown, however, prematurity, formula feeding and an abnormal intestinal microbiota are thought to cause an inflammatory response in the intestine which can lead to NEC and sepsis. Breast milk is the gold standard of infant nutrition and is largely thought to help prevent NEC. The components of breast milk responsible for the development of the GIT have yet to be identified, although, novel research has discovered the presence of microRNA (miRNA) in breast milk exosomes. Due to stable structure, exosomes are protected against degradation, suggesting breast milk exosomal miRNAs continue to be biologically active following ingestion by the infant. miRNAs have previously been described as functioning in cellular communication, implying a method of “listening in” to the cross‐talk between mother and infant via breastfeeding. To characterize miRNAs and identify the role they play in the development of the GIT, exosomes from breast milk must be isolated in a reproducible method to extract miRNAs. Isolating and storing procedures of unprocessed breast milk are underexposed. In recent studies, it has been revealed that storing unprocessed breast milk at −80°C or −4°C lead to cell death within the milk, causing contamination of the native breast milk exosomes. The profiling of miRNA fluctuates depending on the milk fraction analyzed, preparation of milk and exosome fraction as well as the miRNA extraction protocol. Extra care should be taken when preparing samples and following extraction procedures in this area of research. During this early stage of exploring the ways in which the mother communicates with her newborn, it is necessary to collaborate with other research groups to standardize procedures and to synchronize approaches.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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".