Over the past decades the food industry has been revolutionized toward the production of
functional foods due to an increasing awareness of the consumers on the positive role of …

To monitor inflammation in a meaningful way, the markers used must be valid: they must
reflect the inflammatory process under study and they must be predictive of future health …

The initiation of intestinal inflammation involves complex intercellular cross-talk of
inflammatory cells, including the epithelial and immune cells, and the gut microbiome. This …

Probiotics and prebiotics are increasingly being added to foodstuffs with claims of health
benefits. Probiotics are live microorganisms that are thought to have beneficial effects on the …

The specific pathogenesis underlying inflammatory bowel disease is complex, and it is even
more difficult to decipher the pathophysiology to explain for the similarities and differences …

Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) is a probiotic strain with proven efficacy in inducing and
maintaining remission of ulcerative colitis. However, the microbial factors that mediate these …

Scope To compare the intestinal anti‐inflammatory effects of two probiotics Lactobacillus
fermentum and Lactobacillus salivarius in mouse colitis, focusing on their impact on selected …

Probiotics are known to be beneficial in preventing different diseases in model animals,
including inflammatory bowel disease. However, there are few studies on probiotics related …

The intestinal microbiota is increasingly recognized as a complex signaling network that
impacts on many systems beyond the enteric system modulating, among others, cognitive …

Introduction: Mounting evidence suggests an important role for the intestinal microbiota in
the chronic mucosal inflammation that occurs in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and …