Evaluation of Bacillus subtilis strains as probiotics and their potential as a food ingredient

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-135

  Permpoonpattana, P ^a   Hong, H A ^a   Khaneja, R ^a   Cutting, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Food supplements; Probiotics; Spores

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT TREATMENT; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLUID; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPOROGENESIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROBIOTICS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84866915970     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2012.0002     Document Type: Article

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