Streptococcus thermophilus Y08 AF and Enhanced Regulatory T Cell Function

• Yogurt starter cultures of Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus ameliorate symptoms and modulate the immune response in a mouse model of dextran sulfate sodium-induced colitis.

  • 2019-01
  • Journal of Dairy Science 102(1)
  • • Ewa Wasilewska
    • D. Złotkowska
    • Barbara Wróblewska

  • PubMed: 30343915
  • DOI: 10.3168/jds.2018-14520

  18 Insights on

  • Enhanced Regulatory T Cell Function

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  It downregulated the input of cytotoxic CD3+CD8+ T cells and CD3+CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ regulatory T cells in Peyer's patches and enhanced CD3+CD4+CD25+ T cells in spleens and CD3+CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large