Lactobacillus reuteri UALre-16 and Increased Probiotic Bacterial Count

• Heat-killed and live Lactobacillus reuteri GMNL-263 exhibit similar effects on improving metabolic functions in high-fat diet-induced obese rats.

  • 2018-02-16
  • Clinical Trial
  • Food & Function 7(5)
  • • Feng-Ching Hsieh
    • C. Lan
    • Tsui-Yin Huang
    • Kuan-Wei Chen
    • C. Chai
    • Wan-Tzu Chen
    • Ai-Hui Fang
    • Yi-Hsing Chen
    • Ching-Shuang Wu

  • PubMed: 27163114
  • DOI: 10.1039/c5fo01396h

  24 Insights on

  • Increased Probiotic Bacterial Count

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  Feeding HK or live Lr263 reversed the decreased number of probiotic bacteria and increased the number of pathogenic bacteria induced by high-fat treatment.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large