Fermented milk containing Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota prevents the onset of physical symptoms in medical students under academic examination stress

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 153-156

  Kato Kataoka, A ^a   Nishida, K ^b   Takada, M ^a   Suda, K ^a   Kawai, M ^a   Shimizu, K ^a   Kushiro, A ^a   Hoshi, R ^c   Watanabe, O ^c   Igarashi, T ^c   Miyazaki, K ^a   Kuwano, Y ^b   Rokutan, K ^b  

^a YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c Yakult Honsya Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Physical symptoms; Probiotics; Salivary cortisol; Serotonin; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ACADEMIC EXAMINATION STRESS; ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; FERMENTED PRODUCT; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL STRESS; MILK; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL DESIGN; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; FERMENTATION; FERMENTED MILK PRODUCT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CULTURED MILK PRODUCTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MALE; MILK; PROBIOTICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRYPTOPHAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961857250     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2015.0100     Document Type: Article

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