Lactobacillus brevis VPro 18 and Reduced Liver Fat Content

• Oral administration of heat-killed Lactobacillus brevis SBC8803 ameliorates alcoholic liver disease in ethanol-containing diet-fed C57BL/6N mice.

  • 2008-12
  • Clinical Trial
  • International Journal of Food Microbiology 128(2)
  • • S. Segawa
    • Yoshihisa Wakita
    • H. Hirata
    • J. Watari

  • PubMed: 18976829
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2008.09.023

  22 Insights on

  • Reduced Liver Fat Content

  • Low evidence
  • Highly Cited
  • Animal Study

  Oral administration of L. brevis significantly inhibited an increase in ... the content of TG and total cholesterol in the liver caused by ethanol intake.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes