The aim of the present study was to assess whether probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus casei (4 × 10(8) CFU) influences the antioxidant properties of human plasma when combined with prebiotic Inulin (400 mg). Experiments were carried out on healthy volunteers (n = 32). Volunteers were divided according to sex (16 male and 16 female) and randomly assigned to synbiotic and control groups. Blood samp...

Although the epicentres of probiotic research in the past decade have been Japan and Europe, researchers in the Asia-Pacific region have actively contributed to the growing understanding of the intestinal microbial ecosystem, and interactions between gut bacteria, diet and health of the human host. A number of new probiotic strains have been developed in the region that have been demonstrated t...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 To investigate the effects of raffinose and encapsulated Bifidobacterium breve JCM 1192 cells administration on rat cecal microbiota, as a preclinical synbiotic study, groups of male WKAH/Hkm Slc rats were fed for three weeks with four different test diets: basal diet (BD), BD supplemented with raffinose (RAF), BD supplemented with encapsulated B. br...

BACKGROUND The incidence of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and obesity has been rising dramatically; however, their pathogenesis is particularly intriguing. Recently, dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota has emerged as a new candidate that may be linked to metabolic diseases. We hypothesize that selective modulation of the intestinal microbiota by probiotic or synbiotic supplementa...

background: use of synbiotic and zinc sources had synergetic effects on broiler chickens performance and immune response improvements. objectives: this experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of synbiotic and zinc sources on broiler chickens performance, immune response and gut morphology. methods: a total of 780, one-day old male broiler chicks were randomly assigned in factorial met...