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Mekibib Altaye

Professor of Pediatrics
Verified email at cchmc.org
Cited by 14131

Human milk oligosaccharides are associated with protection against diarrhea in breast-fed infants

AL Morrow, GM Ruiz-Palacios, M Altaye, X Jiang… - The Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between maternal milk levels of 2-linked fucosylated
oligosaccharide and prevention of diarrhea as a result of Campylobacter, caliciviruses, …

Decreased brain volume in adults with childhood lead exposure

…, CJ Brubaker, CM Adler, KN Dietrich, M Altaye… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Although environmental lead exposure is associated with significant deficits in
cognition, executive functions, social behaviors, and motor abilities, the neuroanatomical …

Noroviruses bind to human ABO, Lewis, and secretor histo-blood group antigens: identification of 4 distinct strain-specific patterns

…, N Ruvoën-Clouet, AL Morrow, M Altaye… - The Journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We characterized the binding of 8 Noroviruses (NORs) to histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs)
in human saliva using recombinant NOR (rNOR) capsid proteins. Among the 8 rNORs …

Pediatric sports-related concussion produces cerebral blood flow alterations

TA Maugans, C Farley, M Altaye, J Leach… - Pediatrics, 2012 - publications.aap.org
Objectives: The pathophysiology of sports-related concussion (SRC) is incompletely understood.
Human adult and experimental animal investigations have revealed structural axonal …

Template-O-Matic: a toolbox for creating customized pediatric templates

M Wilke, SK Holland, M Altaye, C Gaser - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
Processing pediatric neuroimaging data is a challenge due to pervasive morphological
changes that occur in the human brain during normal development. This is of special relevance …

Elevated cytokine levels in children with autism spectrum disorder

…, P Manning-Courtney, M Altaye, M Wills-Karp - Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
This study compared production of IL-2, IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-13, IL-5 and IL-10 in peripheral blood
mononuclear cells from 20 children with autism spectrum disorder to those from matched …

Fucosylated human milk oligosaccharides vary between individuals and over the course of lactation

P Chaturvedi, CD Warren, M Altaye, AL Morrow… - …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Specific human milk oligosaccharides, especially fucosylated neutral oligosaccharides,
protect infants against specific microbial pathogens. To study the concentrations of individual …

Early microbial and metabolomic signatures predict later onset of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants

…, DH Taft, Z Yu, B Wang, M Altaye, M Wagner… - Microbiome, 2013 - Springer
Background Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating intestinal disease that afflicts 10%
of extremely preterm infants. The contribution of early intestinal colonization to NEC onset …

Evidence for higher reaction time variability for children with ADHD on a range of cognitive tasks including reward and event rate manipulations.

…, WB Brinkman, T Froehlich, JO Simon, M Altaye - …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 27 (1) of Neuropsychology
(see record 2012-35222-001). In the article, the URL for the supplemental material was …

Innate protection conferred by fucosylated oligosaccharides of human milk against diarrhea in breastfed infants

DS Newburg, GM Ruiz-Palacios, M Altaye… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
To test the hypothesis that human milk fucosyloligosaccharides are part of an innate immune
system, we addressed whether their expression (1) depends on maternal genotype and (2) …