Streptococcus salivarius BLIS K12 and Reduced Salivary Gamma-Interferon Levels

• Interferon Gamma Response in Human Saliva Following Exposure to the Oral Probiotic Streptococcus salivarius BLIS K12.

  • 2022-12-08
  • Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins 16(1)
  • • Gemma A Laws
    • Liam K Harold
    • John R Tagg
    • John D F Hale

  • PubMed: 36477439
  • DOI: 10.1007/s12602-022-10010-0

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Salivary Gamma-Interferon Levels

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  consumption of S. salivarius BLIS K12 effected an increase in salivary IFN-γ, and this response was more consistent with use of viable cells than following ingestion of heat-killed S. salivarius BLIS K12

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small