Maternal IgA protects against the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants

Nat Med. 2019 Jul;25(7):1110-1115.

Gopalakrishna KP^1,2, Macadangdang BR^1,3, Rogers MB⁴, Tometich JT¹, Firek BA⁴, Baker R⁵, Ji J^1,6, Burr AHP^1,7, Ma C¹, Good M⁸, Morowitz MJ⁴, Hand TW^9,10.

1. Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2. Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
3. Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
4. Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
5. Division of Newborn Medicine, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
6. School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
7. Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
8. Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
9. Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. timothy.hand@chp.edu.
10. Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. timothy.hand@chp.edu.

Presented by Kathy P. Gopalakrishna