Lactic Acid Bacteria as Probiotics
Applications and Safety Issues
Published on 11. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-3-8433-9199-3 (ISBN)
Description
Fortification of our diet with certain gut flora components is a popular current aspect of functional food sciences. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are normal components of the healthy human intestinal microflora, are commonly used as probiotics added to food products mainly because of their supposed health-promoting activities. Probiotics are live microbial additions to the diet; prebiotics are foodstuffs that have a selective metabolism in the hindgut, whilst synbiotics are combinations of the two approaches. Developments in the application of probiotics as potential therapeutics i. e. treatment of infections, for controlling HIV and as novel vaccine delivery vehicles. This text recapitulated findings and safety issues related to LAB are promising biological agents that can be used as probiotics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8433-9199-3 (9783843391993)
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Dr. Tejpal Dhewa is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Dolphin (PG) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Manduwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. His research is mainly focused on bacteriocin production, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotic formulations.