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Table 8.

Top 10 cited articles on probiotics in pediatrics (2008–2014) [53–62]

SCR	Authors	Title	Year	Source title	Cited by
1^st	Neu & Walker [61]	Necrotizing enterocolitis	2011	New England Journal of Medicine	412
2^nd	Van Assche et al. [62]	The second European evidence-based Consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn’s disease: Special situations	2010	Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis	382
3^rd	Kalliomäki et al. [57]	Early differences in fecal microbiota composition in children may predict overweight	2008	American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	340
4^th	Agostoni et al. [53]	Enteral nutrient supply for preterm infants: Commentary from the european society of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition committee on nutrition	2010	Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition	328
5^th	Macfarlane et al. [59]	Bacterial metabolism and health-related effects of galacto-oligosaccharides and other prebiotics	2008	Journal of Applied Microbiology	283
6^th	Deshpande et al. [55]	Updated meta-analysis of probiotics for preventing necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates	2010	Pediatrics	274
7^th	Hsiao et al. [56]	Microbiota modulate behavioral and physiological abnormalities associated with neurodevelopmental disorders	2013	Cell	269
8^th	Maslowski & MacKay [60]	Diet, gut microbiota and immune responses	2011	Nature Immunology	261
9^th	Lin et al. [58]	Oral probiotics prevent necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight preterm infants: A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled trial	2008	Pediatrics	235
10^th	Arslanoglu et al. [54]	Early dietary intervention with a mixture of prebiotic oligosaccharides reduces the incidence of allergic manifestations and infections during the first 2 years of life	2008	Journal of Nutrition	227

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