Prebiotic effects of diet supplemented with the cultivated red seaweed Chondrus crispus or with fructo-oligo-saccharide on host immunity, colonic microbiota and gut microbial metabolites

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Jinghua ^a   Kandasamy, Saveetha ^a   Zhang, Junzeng ^b   Kirby, Christopher W ^c   Karakach, Tobias ^b   Hafting, Jeff ^d   Critchley, Alan T ^d   Evans, Franklin ^d   Prithiviraj, Balakrishnan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^d Acadian Seaplants Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROPIONIC ACID; RNA 16S; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BODY WEIGHT; CHONDRUS CRISPUS; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COLON FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; SEAWEED; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHONDRUS; COLON; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; FECES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHONDRUS; COLON; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PREBIOTICS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWEED;

EID: 84939123455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-015-0802-5     Document Type: Article

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