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

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

Gopalakrishna KP1,2, Macadangdang BR1,3, Rogers MB4, Tometich JT1, Firek BA4, Baker R5, Ji J1,6, Burr AHP1,7, Ma C1, Good M8, Morowitz MJ4, Hand TW9,10.

  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