Comparative survival of commercial probiotic formulations: Tests in biorelevant gastric fluids and real-time measurements using microcalorimetry

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 141-151

  Fredua Agyeman, M ^a   Gaisford, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastric fluid; Gastric tolerance; Lactobacillus; Survival; Viability

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; DRUG FORMULATION; GASTRIC TOLERANCE ASSAY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; ISOTHERMAL MICROCALORIMETRY; MICROCALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PH; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIMULATION; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH JUICE; SURFACE TENSION; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; CALORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PIG; TIME;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY; GASTRIC JUICE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROBIOTICS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920935654     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2014.0051     Document Type: Article

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