Intelligent nutrition: Health-promoting mechanisms of probiotics

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 812-813

  Amital, Howard ^a,b   Gilburd, Boris ^a,b   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Nutrition; Probiotics; T cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTOBACILLUS EXTRACT; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOGHURT;

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INFECTION RISK; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS; PROBIOTICS; RATS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINA; VAGINITIS; YOGURT;

EID: 0344876557     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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