January 2016 Supplement Research Papers

• January 1

  • Berberine and Its Role in Chronic Disease.

    • 2016-01-01
    • Review
    • Advances in experimental medicine and biology 928
    • • Arrigo F G Cicero
      • Alessandra Baggioni

    • PubMed: 27671811
    • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41334-1_2

    3 Insights on

    • Improved Insulin Sensitivity
    • Reduced Low-Density Lipoprotein Level
    • Reduced Monocyte Adhesion

    • Moderate evidence
    • Highly Cited

  • Daily Intake of Heat-killed Lactobacillus plantarum L-137 Decreases the Probing Depth in Patients Undergoing Supportive Periodontal Therapy.

    • 2016-01-01
    • RCT · n = 17
    • Oral health & preventive dentistry 14(3)
    • • Kazuto Iwasaki
      • Kenta Maeda
      • Kouki Hidaka
      • Kenji Nemoto
      • Yoshitaka Hirose
      • Shinji Deguchi

    • PubMed: 27175447
    • DOI: 10.3290/j.ohpd.a36099

    1 Insight on

    • Reduced Probing Pocket Depth

    • High evidence

  • Herbal Medicine for Low Back Pain: A Cochrane Review.

    • 2016-01-01
    • Systematic Review · n = 2,050
    • Spine 41(2)
    • • Joel J Gagnier
      • Hanna Oltean
      • Maurits W van Tulder
      • Brian M Berman
      • Claire Bombardier
      • Christopher B Robbins

    • PubMed: 26630428
    • DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000001310

    2 Insights on

    • Reduced Pain
    • Improved Function

    • High evidence

  • Effects of oat bran and nutrition counseling on the lipid and glucose profile and anthropometric parameters of hypercholesterolemia patients

    • 2016-01-01
    • RCT · n = 132
    • Nutricion hospitalaria 33(1)
    • • Simone Raimondi de Souza
      • Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
      • Ronir Raggio Luiz
      • Glorimar Rosa

    • PubMed: 27019267
    • DOI: 10.20960/nh.40

    11 Insights on

    • Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure
    • Improved Insulin Sensitivity
    • Reduced Waist Circumference
    • Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure
    • Reduced Body Weight
    • Reduced LDL Cholesterol
    • Reduced Blood Cholesterol
    • Reduced Fasting Blood Glucose Levels
    • Reduced HOMA-IR
    • Improved Diet Quality
    • Reduced Ultraprocessed Food Consumption

    • High evidence
    • Large Human Trial
• January 4

  • Dietary Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Supplementation Improves the Mucosal Barrier Function in the Intestine of Weaned Piglets Challenged by Porcine Rotavirus

    • 2016-01-04
    • RCT
    • PLOS ONE 11(1)
    • • X. Mao
      • Changsong Gu
      • Haiyan Hu
      • Jun Tang
      • Daiwen Chen
      • B. Yu
      • Jun He
      • Jie Yu
      • Junqiu Luo
      • G. Tian

    • PubMed: 26727003
    • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146312

    17 Insights on

    • Improved Gut Microbiota
    • Improved Intestinal Barrier Function
    • Reduced Diarrhea Incidence
    • Improved Immune Response
    • Reduced Inflammatory Response
    • Reduced Diarrhea Rate
    • Improved Immunologic Barrier Function
    • Reduced Apoptosis of Jejunal Mucosal Cells
    • Improved Intestinal Microbiota
    • Reduced Impact of Rhinovirus Infection
    • Reduced Diarrhea Symptoms
    • Reduced Viral Load
    • Improved Intestinal Microbial Composition
    • Reduced Diarrhea
    • Regulated Intestinal Microbiota
    • Reduced RSV Replication
    • Altered Cytokine Levels in Jejunal Mucosa

    • High evidence
    • Highly Cited
    • Rigorous Journal
• January 7

  • Bioaccessible Antioxidants in Milk Fermented by Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum Strains

    • 2016-01-07
    • BioMed Research International 2015
    • • Mérilie Gagnon
      • P. Savard
      • A. Rivière
      • G. LaPointe
      • D. Roy

    • PubMed: 25802836
    • DOI: 10.1155/2015/169381

    1 Insight on

    • Enhanced Antioxidant Bioaccessibility

    • Low evidence
    • Rigorous Journal
• January 8

  • Opportunistic Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A Potential Risk Sold in Food Products

    • 2016-01-08
    • Frontiers in Microbiology 6
    • • R. Pérez-Torrado
      • A. Querol

    • PubMed: 26779173
    • DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01522

    2 Insights on

    • Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fungemia
    • Emergence of Fungal Infections

    • Low evidence
• January 18

  • Gut microbiota analysis reveals a marked shift to bifidobacteria by a starter infant formula containing a synbiotic of bovine milk-derived oligosaccharides and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis CNCM I-3446.

    • 2016-01-18
    • RCT
    • Environmental Microbiology 18(7)
    • • U. Simeoni
      • B. Berger
      • Jana Junick
      • M. Blaut
      • S. Pecquet
      • E. Rezzonico
      • D. Grathwohl
      • N. Sprenger
      • H. Brüssow
      • H. Szajewska
      • J. Bartoli
      • V. Brévaut-Malaty
      • M. Borszewska-Kornacka
      • W. Feleszko
      • P. François
      • C. Gire
      • M. Leclaire
      • J-M Maurin
      • S. Schmidt
      • A. Skórka
      • C. Squizzaro
      • J. Verdot
      • Study Team

    • PubMed: 26626365
    • DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13144

    37 Insights on

    • Reduced Faecal pH
    • Reduced Fecal Microbiota Diversity
    • Improved Gut Microbiota Composition
    • Increased Presence of Bifidobacterium lactis
    • Improved Bifidobacterium-Dominated Microbiota
    • Increased Bifidobacteria Levels
    • Improved Gut Health
    • Improved Gut Microbiome Composition
    • Similar Growth Rate to Breastfed Infants
    • Increased Levels of Bifidobacteria
    • Increased Beneficial Gut Bacteria
    • Normalized Stool pH Comparable to Breastfed Infants
    • Stable Fecal pH
    • Comparable Growth with Breastfed Infants
    • Increased Probiotic B. lactis Levels
    • Increased Bifidobacteria Levels in Gut Microbiota
    • Increased Bifidobacteria Count
    • Increased Growth in Newborns
    • Increased Bifidobacterial Population
    • Increased Fecal Bifidobacterium lactis Levels
    • Increased Bifidobacterium Levels
    • Balanced Gut Microbiota
    • Improved Growth in Infants
    • Enhanced Growth and Development
    • Sustained Healthy Growth
    • Increased Bifidobacterium Dominance in Faecal Microbiota
    • Increased Probiotic Levels
    • Enhanced Probiotic Presence
    • Comparable Tolerability
    • Increased Fecal Acidity Similar to Breastfed Infants
    • Increased Bifidobacterium-Dominated Gut Microbiota
    • Improved Gut Health (Lower Faecal pH)
    • No Change in Newborn Growth
    • Increased Probiotic Concentration in Stool
    • Increased Bifidobacterium Concentration
    • Maintained Growth Rate
    • Increased Bifidobacterium Animalis in Stool

    • High evidence
    • Highly Cited
• January 19

  • Vitamin D and Evening Primrose Oil Administration Improve Glycemia and Lipid Profiles in Women with Gestational Diabetes.

    • 2016-01-19
    • RCT · n = 60
    • Lipids 51(3)
    • • Mehri Jamilian
      • Maryam Karamali
      • Mohsen Taghizadeh
      • Nasrin Sharifi
      • Zahra Jafari
      • Mohammad Reza Memarzadeh
      • Mahnaz Mahlouji
      • Zatolla Asemi

    • PubMed: 26781763
    • DOI: 10.1007/s11745-016-4123-3

    9 Insights on

    • Improved Insulin Sensitivity
    • Reduced Total Cholesterol Levels
    • Reduced Triglyceride Levels
    • Improved Insulin Levels
    • Reduced LDL Cholesterol
    • Reduced Blood Cholesterol
    • Improved Fasting Plasma Glucose
    • Increased High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol
    • Reduced Insulin Resistance

    • High evidence
• January 28

  • Characterization of cosmetic sticks at Xiaohe Cemetery in early Bronze Age Xinjiang, China.

    • 2016-01-28
    • Scientific reports 6(1)
    • • Huijuan Mai
      • Yimin Yang
      • Idelisi Abuduresule
      • Wenying Li
      • Xingjun Hu
      • Changsui Wang

    • PubMed: 26820435
    • DOI: 10.1038/srep18939

    2 Insights on

    • No Human Health Outcome Reported
    • Cosmetic Material Identification

    • Low evidence
    • Rigorous Journal
• Undated – 4 supplement studies

  • Clostridium butyricum: from beneficial to a new emerging pathogen.

    • 2016-01
    • Clinical Microbiology and Infection 22(1)
    • • N. Cassir
      • S. Benamar
      • B. Scola

    • PubMed: 26493849
    • DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.10.014

    4 Insights on

    • Improved Gut Health
    • Reduced Incidence of Infant Botulism
    • Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Neonates
    • Asymptomatic Carrier Status

    • Moderate evidence
    • Highly Cited
    • Rigorous Journal

  • Anti-colon cancer and antioxidant activities of bovine skim milk fermented by selected Lactobacillus helveticus strains.

    • 2016-01
    • Journal of Dairy Science 99(1)
    • • KR Elfahri
      • T. Vasiljevic
      • Thomas R. Yeager
      • O. Donkor

    • PubMed: 26601580
    • DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-10160

    6 Insights on

    • Reduced Incidence of Colon Cancer
    • Increased Antioxidant Activity
    • Enhanced Antioxidant Activity
    • Selective Anti-Colon Cancer Activity
    • Non-Toxicity to Normal Colon Cells
    • No Significant Inhibition on Normal Cells

    • Moderate evidence
    • Highly Cited
    • Rigorous Journal

  • The Influence of Probiotic Lactobacillus casei in Combination with Prebiotic Inulin on the Antioxidant Capacity of Human Plasma

    • 2016-01
    • RCT · n = 32
    • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity 2016
    • • P. Kleniewska
      • Arkadiusz Hoffmann
      • E. Pniewska
      • R. Pawliczak

    • PubMed: 27066188
    • DOI: 10.1155/2016/1340903

    4 Insights on

    • Increased Superoxide Dismutase Activity
    • Increased Ferric Reducing Ability of Plasma
    • Increased Catalase Activity
    • Increased Glutathione Peroxidase Activity

    • High evidence

  • Association of Lactobacillus crispatus with fructo-oligosaccharides and ascorbic acid in hydroxypropyl methylcellulose vaginal insert.

    • 2016-01
    • Carbohydrate Polymers 136
    • • B. Vitali
      • A. Abruzzo
      • C. Parolin
      • R. A. Ñ. Palomino
      • F. Dalena
      • F. Bigucci
      • T. Cerchiara
      • B. Luppi

    • PubMed: 26572459
    • DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.10.035

    3 Insights on

    • Enhanced Antimicrobial Resistance
    • Improved Mucoadhesion
    • Increased Lactobacilli Release

    • Low evidence