New types of nondigestible oligosaccharides were produced from plant cell wall polysaccharides, and the fermentation of these oligosaccharides and their parental polysaccharides by relevant individual intestinal species of bacteria was studied. Oligosaccharides were produced from soy arabinogalactan, sugar beet arabinan, wheat flour arabinoxylan, p...
Published in Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
Funktionelle Lebensmittel spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle bei dem Ziel, bestimmte Erkrankungen wie Infektionen, koronare Herzkrankheiten, Übergewicht, Osteoporose oder Diabetes mellitus zu vermeiden bzw. deren Manifestation hinauszuzögern. Mit Probiotika, Präbiotika sowie Colonic food möchte man gezielt die Darmflora beeinflussen, da diese ei...
Published in Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
Perioperative nutrition has, during the past century, been transformed from a tool to provide calorie and nitrogen support to a tool to boost the immune system and increase resistance to complications. Despite all the progress in medicine and surgery, perioperative morbidity, the rate of infections, thrombosis, and the development of serosal adhesi...
Lactulose, lactitol and lactobionic acid are unabsorbable lactose derivatives with prebiotic potential. They are utilised in varying extent by different Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species/strains. To explore the possibility of improving the properties of probiotic strains with a specific prebiotic, the effect of the lactose derivatives on th...
Published in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
BackgroundPerioperative and intensive therapy unit (ITU) morbidity and mortality has remained unchanged during the past several decades, and this at an unacceptably high level. It is most likely, in the EU countries annually, that more than 1 million people suffer severe sepsis and some 300,000 die. Pharmaceutical attempts at prevention and treatme...
Published in Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
Die Darmflora besteht aus einer großen Anzahl verschiedener Bakterienarten, die multiple wichtige Funktionen für den menschliche Stoffwechsel, die Infektabwehr und das Immunsystem erfüllen. Das wachsende Wissen über den Zusammenhang zwischen Darmflora und Gesundheit hat die Forschung auf dem Gebiet von Pro- und Präbiotika gefördert. Verschiedene pr...
Published in Plant Foods for Human Nutrition
Formulations using cassava starch or inulin plus milk were fermented with three different lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains: Lactobacillus plantarum D34, Lactobacillus sp. SLH6, and Streptococcus thermophilus ST4. Growth and acidification were followed in 3% powdered milk (M3), 3% milk–6% starch (M3-S6), and 3% milk–6% inulin (M3-In6). D34 and SLH...
Published in Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Probiotic bacteria are found in the intestines of humans and other mammals where they provide health benefits to the host. They do so by (1) providing nutrients and cofactors, (2) successfully competing with pathogens, and (3) stimulating host immune responses by producing specific polysaccharides. These bacteria can also alleviate the symptoms of ...
Published in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
Background and aimsThe clinical value of synbiotics in surgical patients remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of synbiotics on intestinal integrity and microflora, as well as on surgical outcome, in patients undergoing high-risk hepatectomy.MethodsFifty-four patients with biliary cancer were randomly allocated to two...
