Effects of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics on human health

Nutrients

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Markowiak, Paulina ^a   Ślizewska, Katarzyna ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gut microbiota; Human health; Prebiotics; Probiotic bacteria; Synbiotics

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYCLODEXTRIN; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GLUCAN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INULIN; LACTULOSE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RAFFINOSE; SUCROSE; SYNBIOTIC AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DIARRHEA; DNA DAMAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LIPID METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; OBESITY; OXALOBACTER FORMIGENES; PH; PORPHYROMONAS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES; STREPTOCOCCUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREBIOTICS; PROBIOTICS; SYNBIOTICS;

EID: 85029661396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu9091021     Document Type: Review

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