Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and No Significant Change in Body Weight or Systemic Inflammation

• Effects of supplementation with Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis CECT 8145-in live probiotic and heat-treated postbiotic form-on fecal metabolites, fecal microbiota, blood metabolites and systemic biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation, and white blood cell gene expression of adult cats.

  • 2025-11-29
  • RCT · n = 90
  • Journal of animal science 103
  • • Sergio Miranda de Souza Junior
    • Empar Chenoll
    • Adrian Howard-Varona
    • Araceli Lamelas
    • Juan F Martinez-Blanch
    • Gary M Davenport
    • Sophie Nixon
    • Fei He
    • Maria R C de Godoy

  • PubMed: 41117771
  • DOI: 10.1093/jas/skaf355

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  • No Significant Change in Body Weight or Systemic Inflammation

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  There was no observed effect on body weight (P > 0.05). ... There was no treatment by day effect of serum cytokines and chemokines (P > 0.05).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No