Maternal separation-induced changes in breast milk fatty acid composition are associated with altered gut microbiota and serotonergic gene expression in neonatal mice
Eman A Mady, Hussein M El-Husseiny, Jun Kambe, Sora Masukado, Shiho Miyata, Taiki Terajima, Hong Liu, Ryo Inoue, Chunmei Li, Yuki Yamamoto, Kentaro Nagaoka · 2026
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Eman A Mady led a 2026 mouse study on how mother pup separation changes breast milk and pup brain signals. Early life stress can shape later health, yet the paths that carry stress from mother to pup are unclear. Milk is a prime suspect, since it feeds both body and gut germs.
Separated mothers had higher levels of a milk fat called myristic acid. Their pups had fewer helpful gut germs, lower inosine in gut and blood, and lower serotonin gene activity in the front brain. Feeding pups the milk fat alone cut the helpful germ count. Links tie milk change to gut and brain shifts.
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| CREATOR | Eman A Mady, Hussein M El-Husseiny, Jun Kambe, Sora Masukado, Shiho Miyata, Taiki Terajima, Hong Liu, Ryo Inoue, Chunmei Li, Yuki Yamamoto, Kentaro Nagaoka |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54310 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |