Gut bacteria play an important role in several metabolic processes and human diseases, such as obesity and its co-morbidities, like fatty liver disease, insulin resistance/diabetes and cardiovascular events. Among several factors, dietary patterns, probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, antimicrobials and non-dietary factors, such as stress, age, exercise and climatic conditions, can dramatically ...

REVIEWER COMMENTS. This study found that probiotic bacteria given to the mother during pregnancy and early lactation might prevent AD in the child. Previous randomized controlled trials that used various probiotics have involved administration directly to all or the majority of children. The results of this study are exciting in that treatment of the mother over a limited period of time seemed ...

Michael T. Cook, George Tzortzis, Dimitris Charalampopoulos*, Vitaliy V. Khutoryanskiy* 4 School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AD, United Kingdom 5 Clasado Research Services Ltd, Science and Technology Centre, University of Reading, Earley 6 Gate, Whiteknights Road, Reading, RG6 6BZ, United Kingdom 7 Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading...

REVIEWER COMMENTS. This study found that probiotic bacteria given to the mother during pregnancy and early lactation might prevent AD in the child. Previous randomized controlled trials that used various probiotics have involved administration directly to all or the majority of children. The results of this study are exciting in that treatment of the mother over a limited period of time seemed ...

Although the epicentres of probiotic research in the past decade have been Japan and Europe, researchers in the Asia-Pacific region have actively contributed to the growing understanding of the intestinal microbial ecosystem, and interactions between gut bacteria, diet and health of the human host. A number of new probiotic strains have been developed in the region that have been demonstrated t...

Yoghurt, and the lactic acid producing bacteria (LAB; probiotics) that it contains, have received much attention as potential cancer-preventing agents in the diet. It is usually considered that the mechanism of the action is by increasing the numbers of LAB in the colon, which modifies the ability of the microflora to produce carcinogens. Prebiotics such as non-digestible oligosaccharides (NDO)...