Probiotics: From myth to reality. Demonstration of functionality in animal models of disease and in human clinical trials

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 279-292

  Dunne, Colum ^a   Murphy, Lisa ^a   Flynn, Sarah ^a   O'Mahony, Liam ^a   O'Halloran, Sile ^a   Feeney, Maria ^a   Morrissey, Darrin ^a   Thornton, Gerardine ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald ^a   Daly, Charles ^a   Kiely, Barry ^a   Quigley, Eamonn M M ^a   O'Sullivan, Gerald C ^b   Shanahan, Fergus ^a   Collins, J Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b MERCY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT; YOGHURT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENTERITIS; FECES; FEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLINICAL TRIALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LACTOBACILLUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 0032824799     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002065931997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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