News tagged with lactobacillus acidophilus


Nutritious new low-sugar juice targeted for diabetics, individuals with high blood sugar

Nutritious new low-sugar juice targeted for diabetics, individuals with high blood sugar

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists in China are reporting development of a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice custom-designed for millions of individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions that involve abnormally high ...





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Good Bacteria Can Be 'EZ Pass' for Oral Vaccine Against Anthrax

Good Bacteria Can Be 'EZ Pass' for Oral Vaccine Against Anthrax

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that the good bacteria found in dairy products and linked to positive health benefits in the human body might also be an effective ...


Just how friendly are those probiotics in your food?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Ready for some live, active cultures in your chocolate? How about your breakfast cereal? Probiotics, the so-called "friendly" bacteria with health benefits, have busted out of the dairy case and are colonizing other areas ...


Bacterial vaginosis treatments: Probiotics can increase effectiveness of some antibiotic therapies

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antimicrobial treatments for bacterial vaginosis (BV) are effective, but taking lactobacillus tablets alongside metronidazole antibiotic therapy increases effectiveness over taking this antibiotic alone, according to a Cochrane ...


Infant formula blocks HIV transmission via breastfeeding

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a global epidemic threatening the lives of millions of people. Because there is no known cure, prevention of the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, the Human Immunodeficiency ...


Eating right, not supplements, is best at keeping your good bacteria healthy, dietitian says

Eating right, not supplements, is best at keeping your good bacteria healthy, dietitian says

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Healthy eating, not supplements, is the best way to keep the good bacteria in your gut healthy, says a dietitian and researcher.


'Good bacteria' in women give clues for slowing HIV transmission

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Beneficial bacteria found in healthy women help to reduce the amount of vaginal HIV among HIV-infected women and make it more difficult for the virus to spread, boosting the possibility that “good bacteria” might someday ...


Cooked ham with 39-day shelf life possible

Biology /

created Sep 04, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

An Irish scientist said cooked ham might soon be given a 39-day shelf life by preserving it with a bacterium.


How probiotics can prevent disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using probiotics successfully against a number of animal diseases has helped scientists from University College Cork, Ireland to understand some of the ways in which they work, which could lead to them using probiotics to ...


Friendly bacteria reduce hospital infections

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

A probiotic bacterium, Lactobacillus plantarum 299, has been used to out-compete the dangerous bacteria that cause respiratory illness in ventilated patients. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critic ...


How do Lactobacilli treat Helicobacter pylori-related diseases?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Helicobacter pylori lipopolysaccharide, the major virulent factor of H. pylori, triggers interleukin-8 production in gastric epithelia through activating Toll-like receptor 4 pathways, leading to gastric mucosal inflammation. ...



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