Health benefits of lactobacillus gasseri cp2305 tablets in young adults exposed to chronic stress: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Nutrients

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2019, Pages

  Nishida, Kensei ^a   Sawada, Daisuke ^b   Kuwano, Yuki ^a   Tanaka, Hiroki ^a   Rokutan, Kazuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Asahi Quality & Innovations Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Fecal microbiota; Healthy young adults; Heat inactivated Lactobacillus gasseri CP2305; Mental health; Psychobiotics; Sleep quality; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CHROMOGRANIN A; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOBUTYRIC ACID; ISOVALERIC ACID; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROPIONIC ACID; RNA 16S; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; VALERIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHRONIC STRESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; IRRITABLE COLON; JAPAN; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL HEALTH; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP LATENCY; SLEEP QUALITY; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STREPTOCOCCUS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; TABLET; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHROMOGRANIN A; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; MALE; PROBIOTICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALIVA; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TABLETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85071282084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu11081859     Document Type: Article

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