چکیده (انگلیسی):

Chronic inflammatory diseases are a major health problem with global dimension. Particularly, the incidence of
allergic diseases has been increased tremendously within the last decades. This world-wide trend clearly indicates
the demand for new approaches in the investigation of early allergy development. Recent studies underlined
the basic postulate of the hygiene hypothesis that early exposure to microbial stimuli plays a crucial role in
the prevention of chronic inflammatory conditions in adulthood. There is ample evidence that, both, exogenous
microbes and endogenous microbial communities, the human microbiota, shape the developing immune system
and might be involved in prevention of pathologic pro-inflammatory trails. According to the Barker hypothesis,
epidemiological studies pointed to transmaternal transmission from the mother to the offspring already in
prenatal life. Experimental data from murine models support these findings. This state of the art review provides
an overview on the current literature and presents new experimental concepts that point out to future application
in the prevention of allergic diseases.