Mechanisms of Malnutrition and Intestinal Infection in Children
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2024 | Viewed by 250
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition; intestinal permeability and inflammation; intestinal immune response; intestinal barrier function; enteric infections
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although child mortality has been declining worldwide over many years due to improvements in the access of health services, malnutrition and enteric infections early in life are still strongly associated with short- and long-term disturbances (even without diarrhea) in developmental trajectories in children. The worldwide recent crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and Ukraine–Russia war conflict have been affecting large-scale food supplies to governments and societies, with unprecedented impacts on human life conditions. In addition, the chronic morbidity of malnutrition and enteric infections is still mostly unappreciated and may lead to metabolic, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative conditions with aging that may prolong and aggravate degenerative disorders with increased hospital costs. A better understanding of the pathophysiology of intestinal dysbiosis, intestinal barrier permeability, gut-to-blood bacterial translocation, and related immunoinflammatory pathways during this vicious cycle is key to dissect the fine mechanisms leading to poor growth and cognitive deficits that may be sustained later in life. Environmental, genetic and epigenetics crosstalk of the mechanisms that regulate the vicious cycle of malnutrition and enteric infections is still poorly understood and requires further research. This Special Issue will focus on innovative and integrative nutritional approaches to mitigate malnutrition and enteric infections and their short- and long-term consequences for human health.
Dr. Reinaldo B. Oriá
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intestinal microbiota
- gut dysbiosis
- environmental enteric dysfunction
- gut–brain axis
- inflammation
- child development
