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. 2023 Dec 5;15(24):5016. doi: 10.3390/nu15245016

Table 1.

Alterations in the immunological properties in the milk of obese mothers.

Bioactive Component Alterations References Values
Carbohydrates
  1. HMOs

  • LNFPI

Decrease Isganaitis et al. [59]
  • reduction of 60%

  • LNFPII/III

Increase Isganaitis et al. [59]
  • increase of 1.674×

  • 2′-FL

Decrease Isganaitis et al. [59]
  • reduction of 40%

Increase Lagstrom et al. [60], Wang et al. [61]
  • increase of 8 nmol/L

Igs
  1. IgG

Decrease Dyndar et al. [87]
  • 2.1× lower

  • 2.

    IgM

Decrease Dyndar et al. [87]
  • 1.9× lower

  • 3.

    IgA

Decrease Dyndar et al. [87]
  • 2.2× lower

  • 4.

    SIgA

Increase Fujimori et al. [55]
  • no specific data

Lactoferrin Increase Houghton et al. [88]
  • increase of 0.36–0.76 mg/mL

Decrease Dyndar et al. [87]
  • 1.6× lower

Cytokines
  • 1.

    IL-6

Increase Collado et al. [89]
  • increase of 18.99 pg/mL (colostrum)

Decrease Collado et al. [89]
  • decrease of 8.9 pg/mL (1-month milk)

  • 2.

    IL-10

Increase Collado et al. [89]
  • increase of 2.55 pg/mL (colostrum)

  • 3.

    IL-4

Increase Collado et al. [89]
  • increase of 2.57 pg/mL (colostrum)

  • 4.

    TNFα

Increase Collado et al. [89]
  • increase of 1.54 pg/mL (colostrum)

Decrease Collado et al. [89]
  • decrease of 0.37 pg/mL (1-month milk)

Growth factors
  • 1.

    EGF

Decrease Khodabakhshi [90] decrease of 0.002 ng/mL
Adipokines
  • 1.

    Adiponectin

Increase Martin et al. [91], Clark et al. [92]
  • increase of 3653 pg/mL

Yu X et al. [93]
Decrease Guler et al. [94]
  • no specific data

  • 2.

    Ghrelin


Decrease
Increase
Zhang et al. [95], Yu X et al. [93] Guler et al. [94]
  • decrease of 145.53 pg/mL

  • no specific data


  • 3.

    Leptin


Increase
Uysal et al. [96], Clark et al. [92],
Quinn et al. [97], De Luca et al. [50], Sims et al. [98], Young et al. [99], Savino et al. [100], Chan et al. [101], Kugananthan et al. [102], Fields et al. [103,104], Schuster et al. [105]
  • 96.5% (overweight) and 315.1% (obese) higher; 1.5–2.5 times higher; increase of 830.6 pg/mL; increase of 1.3–2.3 ng/nL; 1.59 log unit increase; increase of 0.006 ± 0.002 ng/mL

Leukocytes
1. B lymphocytes Decrease Piñeiro-Salvado et al. [106] reduction of 0.24%
Casein Decrease Dyndar et al [87] 1.5× lower
FAA Increase De Luca et al. [107]
  • increase of 20%

Decrease Bardanzellu et al. [108]
  • reduce of 30%

Polyamines Decrease Ali et al. [109]
  • decrease of about 10 nmol/dL (spermidine) and 10–30 nmol/dL (putrescine) and depending on the month

Nucleotides
  • 1.

    Pyrimidines

Decrease Isganaitis et al. [59]
  • reduction of 25%

  • 2.

    Purines

Increase Isganaitis et al. [59]
  • increase of 1.76×

Osteopontin Increase Zhu et al. [110], Ruan et al. [111]
  • no specific data

Decrease Aksan et al. [112]
  • decrease of 16–77.1 mg/L

CRP Increase Sims et al. [98], Whitaker et al. [113] no specific data
Microbiome
  1. Staphylococcus

Increase Collado et al. [89], Cabrera-Rubio et al. [114], Lemay-Nedjelski et al. [115]
  • increase of 0.42–0.62 copies/mL

  • 2.

    Bifidobacterium


Decrease

Collado et al. [89], Cabrera-Rubio et al. [114]
  • decrease of 0.26–0.64 copies/mL

  • 3.

    Akkermansia muciniphila


Increase Collado et al. [89]
  • increase of 0.03–0.51 copies/mL

  • 4.

    Lactobacillus

  • 5.

    Bacteroidetes

  • 6.

    Proteobacteria

  • 7.

    Actinobacteria

  • 8.

    Corynebacterium

  • 9.

    Brevundimonas

Increase
Increase
Decrease
Increase
Increase
Increase
Cabrera-Rubio et al. [114]
Lemay-Nedjelski et al. [115]
Lemay-Nedjelski et al. [115]
Lemay-Nedjelski et al. [115]
Lemay-Nedjelski et al. [115]
Lemay-Nedjelski et al. [115]
  • ratio: 0.52; 95%

  • incidence rate ratio: 2.56

  • incidence rate ratio: 0.62

  • incidence rate ratio: 2.02

  • incidence rate ratio: 4.98

  • incidence rate ratio: 8.72

EVs
  • 1.

    miR-128-3p

Decrease Kupsco et al. [116]
  • fold changes of 0.91

  • 2.

    miR-130a-3p

Decrease Kupsco et al. [116]
  • fold changes of 0.93

  • 3.

    miR-574-3p

Decrease Kupsco et al. [116]
  • fold changes of 0.092

  • 4.

    miR-6881-5p

Decrease Kupsco et al. [116]
  • fold changes of 0.94

  • 5.

    miR-148a

Decrease Shah et al. [117], Xi et al. [118]
  • lower by 30%, r/F—−0.291/−0.356

  • 6.

    miR-30b

Decrease Shah et al. [117]
  • lower by 42%

  • 7.

    let-7a

Decrease Xi et al. [118]
  • r /F—−0.425/−0.202

  • 8.

    miRNA-378

Decrease Xi et al. [118]
  • r/F—−0.223/−0.335

  • 9.

    miR-575

Decrease Cho et al. [119]
  • log2Fold change = −1.983

  • 10.

    miR-630

Decrease Cho et al. [119]
  • log2Fold change = −1.447