Lactobacillus paracasei VPro 224 and Reduced Muscle Hypercontractility

• Lactobacillus paracasei normalizes muscle hypercontractility in a murine model of postinfective gut dysfunction.

  • 2004-09
  • Clinical Trial
  • Gastroenterology 127(3)
  • • E. Verdú
    • P. Bercik
    • G. Bergonzelli
    • Xian-xi Huang
    • P. Blennerhasset
    • F. Rochat
    • M. Fiaux
    • R. Mansourian
    • I. Corthésy-theulaz
    • S. Collins

  • PubMed: 15362038
  • DOI: 10.1053/J.GASTRO.2004.06.007

  9 Insights on

  • Reduced Muscle Hypercontractility

  • Low evidence
  • Highly Cited
  • Animal Study

  Lactobacillus paracasei, but not Lactobacillus johnsonii, Bifidobacterium lactis, or Bifidobacterium longum, attenuated muscle hypercontractility.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large