Lactobacillus helveticus and Improved Immune Function

• Effects of Different Types of Lactobacillus helveticus Exopolysaccharides on Immune Function in Immunodeficient Mice.

  • 2026-01-11
  • Observational
  • Foods (Basel, Switzerland) 15(2)
  • • Shunyu Wang
    • Hongchao Wang
    • Fuhao Li
    • Yurong Zhao
    • Zhangming Pei
    • Wenwei Lu
    • Jianxin Zhao
    • Shourong Lu

  • PubMed: 41596860
  • DOI: 10.3390/foods15020261

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Immune Function

  • Low evidence

  Both mannose-enriched and fucose-enriched EPS significantly elevated splenic indices and ameliorated white pulp atrophy. Furthermore, these EPS variants restored cytokine homeostasis in serum and small intestinal tissues, attenuated hepatic steatosis, and restructured the gut microbiota by enhancing microbial diversity...

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes