Maternal supplementation with Bifidobacterium breve M-16V prevents their offspring from allergic airway inflammation accelerated by the prenatal exposure to an air pollutant aerosol

• Chiyoko Terada-Ikeda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiyoko Terada-Ikeda, Masahiro Kitabatake

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

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• Masahiro Kitabatake ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiyoko Terada-Ikeda, Masahiro Kitabatake

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

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• Akari Hiraku,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation R&D Division, Food Ingredients and Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Zama, Japan

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• Kumiko Kato,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation R&D Division, Next Generation Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Zama, Japan

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• Satsuki Yasui,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

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• Natsuko Imakita,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

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• Noriko Ouji-Sageshima,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

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• Noriyuki Iwabuchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation R&D Division, Food Ingredients and Technology Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Zama, Japan

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• Kaoru Hamada,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Investigative Medicine, Faculty of Nursing, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

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• Toshihiro Ito

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: toshi-ito@naramed-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1728-2449

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