Lactobacillus johnsonii VPro 33 and Reduced TNF-α Levels

• Improvement of nutritional status and incidence of infection in hospitalised, enterally fed elderly by feeding of fermented milk containing probiotic Lactobacillus johnsonii La1 (NCC533)

  • 2007-11
  • RCT · n = 24
  • British Journal of Nutrition 98(5)
  • • Y. Fukushima
    • S. Miyaguchi
    • T. Yamano
    • Tomoko Kaburagi
    • H. Iino
    • K. Ushida
    • Kazuto Sato

  • PubMed: 17617944
  • DOI: 10.1017/S0007114507764723

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced TNF-α Levels

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  and a decrease in TNF-alpha (a pro-inflammatory cytokine) in the LC1 group

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No