Understanding gut microbiota in elderly's health will enable intervention through probiotics

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 235-246

  Perez Martinez G ^a   Bauerl C ^a   Collado, M C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diet; Gut microbiota; Inflammaging; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI EXTRACT; PLACEBO; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SYNBIOTIC AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL8 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGED; AGING; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDETES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM INFANTIS; COGNITION; CONSTIPATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIRMICUTES; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; WELLBEING; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEALTH; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGED; AGING; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEALTH; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MICROBIOTA; PREBIOTICS; PROBIOTICS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84904039648     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2013.0079     Document Type: Review

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