Lactobacillus acidophilus R0418 and Reduced Transforming Growth Factor Beta Levels

• Oral administration of Lactobacillus acidophilus induces IL-12 production in spleen cell culture of BALB/c mice bearing transplanted breast tumour.

  • 2010-03-02
  • British Journal of Nutrition 104(2)
  • • M. Yazdi
    • M. M. Soltan Dallal
    • Z. Hassan
    • M. Holakuyee
    • S. Agha Amiri
    • M. Abolhassani
    • M. Mahdavi

  • PubMed: 20193099
  • DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510000516

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Transforming Growth Factor Beta Levels

  • Moderate evidence

  ...and decreased the level of transforming growth factor beta (P = 0.05) in the splenocyte culture.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No