Microbiome Based Probiotics Flashcards
Shaping immune system by probiotics can lead to
Stimulate production of GI hormones
Manipulation of microbiota via passive processes
Hygiene, diet, lifestyle
Hygiene
Sanitary practices shift primary colonizers
Diet
Phylogenetic variations
Lifestyle
Diversity affected by physical activity (more diverse in athletes)
Active processes to manipulate the microbiome
Antibiotics and prebiotics
Antibiotics lead to (4)
Dysbiosis, low diversity, taxonomic richness, and evenness
Gene altering by antibiotics (3)
Decreased SCFA, glycolysis, vitamin production…for bacterial survival
Why antibiotics lead to negative effects
Have chemicals that inhibit specific functions in cell to stress bacteria
Probiotics affect host
Directly or through its products
Probiotics best studied for
Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium
Monostrain
Only one strain supplied
Multistrain
Several strains of different species/genera and are most products on market
Multistrains may have
Synergistic effects
Examples of multistrain probiotics
VSL#3 and EcologicRTolerance/Syngut
VSL#3 (7)
S. thermophilus, Eubacterium faecium, B. breve, B. infantis, L. acidophilus, L. Plantum, L. casei, L. delbruekii sb. bulgarisus
Syngut/EcologicTolerance (4)
B. lactis, L. acidophilus, L. pantum, L. lactis
Multistrains work in…
Healthy people, not sick
Probiotics isolated from commensal gut bacteria
Can’t be given definition of probiotics until stability, content, and health effects characterised
Select microbes in gut by…
Understanding which microbes are decreased in different diseases (chose that one to restore microbiome)