We investigated the effects of JTT-130 on glucose and lipid metabolism independent of the suppression of feeding by comparing with pair-fed animals. Male Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats were divided into control, JTT-130 treatment, and pair-fed groups. The rats were fed with a regular powdered diet with or without JTT-130 as a food admixture for 6 weeks. We compared the effects on glucose and ...

Interest in probiotic research and its potential benefits in infant foods are relatively recent but significantly increasing. The evolution of the knowledge in the last 20 years demonstrated that alterations in the microbiome may be a consequence of events occurring during infancy or childhood, including prematurity, cesarean section, and nosocomial infections. Several pieces of evidence prove ...

Probiotic bacteria are used to balance a disturbed intestinal microflora and dysfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). They could be an effective alternative to the use of synthetic substances in nutrition and medicine. We investigated the effect of probiotics and potentiated probiotics on the productivity of laying hens. An experiment was carried out on 30 hens of the Hyssex layer hybr...

The role that functional foods might play in enhancing human health is continuing to develop. Comprehensive approaches, which will enable scientists both to understand the total human physiological response to diet (through application of human genomics and metabolomics) and evaluate health maintenance rather than disease incidence, will advance this field greatly. In the United States, functio...

In this study, it was aimed to immunohistochemically evaluate the possible effect of probiotic supplementation on rats fed a high cholesterol diet mast cell heterogeneity and density in urinary bladder expression chymase, tryptase tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) cytokine bladder. Three groups were formed study. For 8 weeks, Group 1 (control group) regular rat diet. Food for 2 (feeding +2% c...

BACKGROUND Probiotics seem to possess tumour inhibitory properties, but few studies have investigated their actions on the cell proliferation of normal colonic mucosa. The effects of a probiotic mixture (VSL#3) on polyamine biosynthesis, Ki-67 levels and apoptosis in the normal colon of rats were studied. MATERIALS AND METHODS For a 4-week period, 20 rats were fed a VSL#3 solution and 20 rats...

background: epilepsy is a chief communal health problem. antiepileptic drugs only provide symptomatic treatment. walnut kernels (wk) have high concentrations of phenolic compounds, which have beneficial effects on human health because of their antioxidant and anti-atherogenic properties. the present study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of wk supplementation for the prevention of experime...

background: some evidence has shown benefits of probiotics in the management of minimal hepatic encephalopathy (mhe). we evaluated the efficacy of a multistrain probiotic compound, alone and in combination with lactulose, in the treatment of mhe. materials and methods: h   is study has two parts. first, consecutive adult patients with mhe were randomized to receive lactulose (30–60 ml/day) + pr...