Lactobacillus fermentum LF61 and Reduced Liver Weight-to-Body Weight Ratio

• Characterisation of Lactobacillus fermentum SM-7 isolated from koumiss, a potential probiotic bacterium with cholesterol-lowering effects.

  • 2010-10-28
  • Clinical Trial
  • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 91(3)
  • • D. Pan
    • Xiaoqun Zeng
    • Yuhua Yan

  • PubMed: 21218486
  • DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.4214

  18 Insights on

  • Reduced Liver Weight-to-Body Weight Ratio

  • Low evidence
  • Highly Cited
  • Animal Study

  The liver weight/body weight ratio of SM-7 groups were lower than those of mice on a high-cholesterol diet that were not given lactobacilli.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate