Lactic acid bacteria: a functional approach

"The book deals with advances made in the functionalities of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) such as, their effect on vitamin D receptor expression, impact on neurodegeneratives pathologies, production of B-vitamins for food bio-enrichment, production of bacteriocins to improve gut microbiota dysbiosis, production of metabolites from polyphenols and their effects on human health, effect on reducing the immunoreaction of food allergens, as biological system using time-temperature to improve food safety, and the use of probiotic in animal feed. The book also reviews the use of LAB and probiotics technologies to develop new functional foods and functional pharmaceutical"--

Cell-cell communication in lactic acid bacteria : potential mechanisms / Lima, EMF, Quecán, BXV, Cunha, LR, Franco, BDGMF, and Pinto, UM -- Probiotic dose-response and strain number / Ouwehand, A -- Impact of lactic acid bacteriaon bioavailability and digestibility / Hess, J -- Lactic acid bacteria application to decrease food allergies / Bíscola, V, Albuquerque, MAC, Nunes, TP, Vieira, ADS, and Franco, BDGM -- Lactic acid bacteria bacteriocins and their impact on human health / Todorov, S and Chikindas, ML -- Probiotics, vitamin D, and vitamin D receptor in health and disease / Battistini, C, Nassani, N, Saad, SMI, and Sun, J -- B-group vitamin producing lactic acid bacteria : a tool to bio-enrich foods and delivery natural vitamin to the host / Albuquerque, MAC, Terán, MM, Garutti, LHG, Cucik, ACC, Saad, SMI, and LeBlanc, JG -- Effect of short-chain fatty acids produced by probiotics : functional role toward the improvement of human health / da Silva, MF, de Lima, MSF, and Converti, A -- Impact of probiotics on human gut microbiota and the relationship with obesity / Bianchi, F and Sivieri, K -- Probiotics in the management of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndr…