Bifidobacterium lactis Bb-02 and Improved Intestinal Barrier Function

• Cheese starter cultures attenuate inflammation in the in vitro Caco-2 model.

  • 2025-07-03
  • AIMS microbiology 11(2)
  • • Deepa Kuttappan
    • Sulthana Humayoon Muttathukonam
    • Mary Anne Amalaradjou

  • PubMed: 40600210
  • DOI: 10.3934/microbiol.2025017

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Intestinal Barrier Function

  • Low evidence

  the cultures protected the Caco-2 monolayer from inflammation-induced increase in permeability by upregulating the genes associated with ZO-1 and occludin production.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate