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Poster Presentation: Pre and Pro Biotics

This poster presentation abstract discusses the health benefits of prebiotics and probiotics. While in vitro and animal studies have demonstrated positive effects on the intestinal microflora, barrier, and immune system, scientific proof in humans is still lacking. Prebiotics and probiotics act in the intestinal tract, maintaining a healthy gut microflora and influencing metabolic, trophic, and protective mechanisms. Future studies should determine the characteristics of a healthy gut and evaluate specific health benefits through well-designed, controlled human studies of adequate duration.

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Poster Presentation: Pre and Pro Biotics

This poster presentation abstract discusses the health benefits of prebiotics and probiotics. While in vitro and animal studies have demonstrated positive effects on the intestinal microflora, barrier, and immune system, scientific proof in humans is still lacking. Prebiotics and probiotics act in the intestinal tract, maintaining a healthy gut microflora and influencing metabolic, trophic, and protective mechanisms. Future studies should determine the characteristics of a healthy gut and evaluate specific health benefits through well-designed, controlled human studies of adequate duration.

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ABSTRACT PRE AND PRO BIOTICS


Nowadays, the regular consumption of pre- and probiotics is recommended to provide various positive health benefits. The in vitro and in vivo demonstrated actions on the intestinal microflora, the mucosal barrier and the immunological system are very interesting to propose beneficial health effects, but the scientific proof in humans is not demonstrated yet. Pre- and probiotics are very active in the intestinal tract (mainly in the colon) by maintaining a healthy gut microflora and influencing metabolic, trophic and protective mechanism. Prebiotics stimulates the growth of apathogen bacteria and increase the short chain fatty acid concentration by fermentation. Short chain fatty acids are necessary substrates for a healthy gut. Probiotics inhibit the growth of pathogen bacteria, reduce the translocation of bacteria and toxins and modulate the intestinal immune system. For some specific clinical diseases (ulcerative colitis, pouchitis, diarrhoea) a therapeutic and prophylactic effect with pre- and probiotics was shown. In the near future more indications for pre- and probiotics (used as a single strain or as in a combination) will be added. Promising results are already shown in irritable bowel syndrome, prevention of antibiotic induced diarrhoea, in surgical and in intensive care patients. Future studies should focus to determine the characteristics of a healthy gut and the evaluation of specific health benefits by well-designed, controlled human studies of adequate duration.

PRITI YADAV(Final Yr F.T.) PRIYA TRIPATHI(Final Yr B.E.)

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