Can prebiotics and probiotics improve therapeutic outcomes for undernourished individuals?

Gut Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-82

  Sheridan, Paul O ^a,b   Bindels, Laure B ^c   Saulnier, Delphine M ^d,i   Reid, Gregor ^e   Nova, Esther ^f   Holmgren, Kerstin ^g   O'Toole, Paul W ^b   Bunn, James ^h   Delzenne, Nathalie ^c   Scott, Karen P ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE OF FOOD SCIENCE   (Spain)

^g Probi AB   (Sweden)

^h ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Department of Gastrointestinal Microbiology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ISAPP; Malnutrition; Microbiota; Prebiotics; Probiotics; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 6; MINERAL; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN; YOGHURT;

ABSORPTION; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACUTE DIARRHEA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CACHEXIA; ECLAMPSIA; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE FLORA; KWASHIORKOR; MALNUTRITION; MINERAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROTEOBACTERIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICROBIOTA; PREBIOTICS; PREGNANCY; PROBIOTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892514881     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.27252     Document Type: Article

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