Lactobacillus fermentum UALf-32 and Increased Butyrate Levels

• An In Vitro Study of the Probiotic Potential of a Bile-Salt-Hydrolyzing Lactobacillus fermentum Strain, and Determination of Its Cholesterol-Lowering Properties

  • 2003-08
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69(8)
  • • Dora I A Pereira
    • A. McCartney
    • G. Gibson

  • PubMed: 12902267
  • DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4743-4752.2003

  7 Insights on

  • Increased Butyrate Levels

  • Low evidence
  • Highly Cited

  The propionate and butyrate concentrations increased considerably (50 to 90% and 52 to 157%, respectively).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

• Oral administration of Lactobacillus fermentum I5007 favors intestinal development and alters the intestinal microbiota in formula-fed piglets.

  • 2014-01-15
  • RCT · n = 2
  • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 62(4)
  • • Hong Liu
    • Jiang Zhang
    • Shihai Zhang
    • Fengjuan Yang
    • P. Thacker
    • Guolong Zhang
    • S. Qiao
    • Xi Ma

  • PubMed: 24404892
  • DOI: 10.1021/jf403288r

  18 Insights on

  • Increased Butyrate Levels

  • Low evidence
  • Highly Cited
  • Animal Study

  On day 14, increases in the concentrations of butyrate (7.55 ± 0.55 vs 5.33 ± 0.39) in the colonic digesta were observed in piglets in the L. fermentum I5007 treatment (P < 0.05).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes