BACKGROUND Constipation is a frustrating symptom affecting 3% of children worldwide. Randomised controlled trials show that both polyethylene glycol and lactulose are effective in increasing defecation frequency in children with constipation. However, in 30-50%, these children reported abdominal pain, bloating, flatulence, diarrhoea, nausea and bad taste of the medication. Two recent studies ha...

Background: The application of natural compounds including green tea extract (GTE) in food and pharmaceutical industries is limited. Encapsulation in nanoliposomes could be used as a delivery system to protect these compounds during processing and storage. Objective: In this study encapsulation of green tea extract in nanoliposomes and evaluation of its antibacterial, antioxidant and prebiot...

BACKGROUND The aging process can lead to a decline in cellular immunity. Therefore, the elderly could benefit from safe and effective interventions that restore cellular immune functions. OBJECTIVE We determined whether dietary supplementation with the known immunostimulating probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis HN019 could enhance aspects of cellular immunity in elderly subjects. DESIGN Thirty...

Consumption of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been suggested to confer a range of health benefits including stimulation of the immune system and increased resistance to malignancy and infectious illness. In the present study, the effects of feeding Lactobacillus rhamnosus (HN001, DR20), Lactobacillus acidophilus (HN017) and Bifidobacterium lactis (HN019, DR10) on in vivo and in vitro indices of...

Food allergy is an immune illness to dietary proteins, with symptoms extending from mild gastrointestinal symptoms to critical anaphylactic shock. Probiotic bacteria may advance endogenous barrier systems in patients with food allergy, and by relieving intestinal inflammation, may perform as a useful tool in the prevention and management of food allergy. Recently, it was reported that using pro...

Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 is a commercially available probiotic strain used throughout the world in a variety of functional foods and dietary supplements. The benefits of BB-12 have been documented in a number of independent clinical trials. Determination of the complete genome sequence reveals a single circular chromosome of 1,942,198 bp with 1,642 predicted protein-encoding...

Breast milk is important for infant health. Some of its benefits are due to the presence a specific population bacteria in microflora. However, microbiome breast influenced by many parameters such as maternal diet, breastfeeding and geographic location. Culture non-culture methods have been used studies this bacterial worldwide. But DR Congo, there was no study reporting use culture-independent...

Probiotic bacteria exert beneficial effects on human health through suppression of harmful microorganisms and immunomodulatory activity. Preclinical and clinical studies have accumulated evidence of the effect of orally administered probiotics in the management of allergic diseases, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and other debilitating disorders. For example, oral administration of Bifidobac...