OBJECTIVE To investigate deep and comprehensive analysis of gut microbial communities and biological parameters after prebiotic administration in obese and diabetic mice. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Genetic (ob/ob) or diet-induced obese and diabetic mice were chronically fed with prebiotic-enriched diet or with a control diet. Extensive gut microbiota analyses, including quantitative PCR, pyr...

At present, there is a huge interest in finding new prebiotics from agrofood industrial waste, such as the soyabean by-product Okara, rich in insoluble dietary fibre. A previous treatment of Okara with high hydrostatic pressure assisted by the food-grade enzyme Ultraflo ® L achieved a 58·2 % increment in its soluble dietary fibre (SDF) contents. Therefore, potential prebiotic effect of both tre...

This study had been performed in order to research the effects on performance and some carcass parameters of the addition of prebiotic and butyric acid and of their combined use in quail rations as a growth factor alternative to antibiotics. The research was carried out by 144 male-female Japanese Quails of daily age as having 4 groups-that are the control group in which no addition was made, t...

the present study investigates the effects of different routes of inulin administration as prebiotic on gut microbiota and survival rate of indian white shrimp post-larvae. four hundred and fifty indian white shrimp post-larvae (pl1) were stocked in nine tanks. the tanks were assigned into three treatments: feeding with inulin-treated (110 mg l-1) artemia nauplii (i-t), feeding with inulin-enri...

Prebiotic: A nondigestible food ingredient that benefits the host by selectively stimulating the favorable growth and/ or activity of 1 or more indigenous prebiotic bacteria. Prebiotics can modify the intestinal flora and interact with the immune system of the host against specific pathogens. However clinical trials are currently limited and a beneficial effect of prebiotic in treatment acute d...

Objectives. At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to: 1. define the terms prebiotic, probiotic, and synbiotic and the differences between these supplements; 2. recognize the mechanism of action of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics in conferring benefit to patients; 3. demonstrate an understanding of conditions in which prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics have ...