ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2017
Synbiotic approaches to human health and well-being.
Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effects of Probiotics and Synbiotics Supplementation on Blood Pressure in Adults with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Grade-Assessed Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of synbiotic supplementation on anthropometric indices and body composition in overweight or obese children and adolescents: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2023Trial
- Gut microbiota and cancer immunotherapy: from dysbiosis to personalized immune checkpoint blockade optimization.Folia microbiologica · 2026Review
- Natural and Biological Products Therapeutic Potential in Restoring Gut Microbiome: Mechanistic Insights and Clinical Implications.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Synbiotics: An Emerging Frontier in Infectious Diseases Control.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Multi-target Effects of Short-Chain Fatty Acids for Obesity-Related Asthma: Interventional Potential and Challenges.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025Review
- Inter- and Transgenerational Effects of In Ovo Stimulation with Bioactive Compounds on Cecal Tonsils and Cecal Mucosa Transcriptomes in a Chicken Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Impact of Probiotics and Prebiotics on Gut Microbiome and Hormonal Regulation.Gastrointestinal disorders (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the synbiotic effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mushroom extract on the growth performance, digestive enzyme activity, and immune status of zebrafish danio rerio.BMC microbiology · 2024Article
- Metabolic syndrome's new therapy: Supplement the gut microbiome.World journal of diabetes · 2024Article
- Synbiotics as potent functional food: recent updates on therapeutic potential and mechanistic insight.Journal of food science and technology · 2024Review
- Gut microbiota as a biomarker and modulator of anti-tumor immunotherapy outcomes.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Postbiotics: Functional Food Materials and Therapeutic Agents for Cancer, Diabetes, and Inflammatory Diseases.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics-A Research Hotspot for Pediatric Obesity.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Gut microbiome supplementation as therapy for metabolic syndrome.World journal of diabetes · 2023Review
- How to Improve Health with Biological Agents-Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Butyrate producers, "The Sentinel of Gut": Their intestinal significance with and beyond butyrate, and prospective use as microbial therapeutics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- The Antibiofilm Role of Biotics Family in Vaginal Fungal Infections.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Impact of synbiotics on gut microbiota during early life: a randomized, double-blind study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Microbiota metabolites modulate the T helper 17 to regulatory T cell (Th17/Treg) imbalance promoting resilience to stress-induced anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2021Article
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Abstract
Synbiotics refer to combinations of probiotics and prebiotics that act synergistically to confer health benefits to the host. As a therapeutic strategy, they provide a gentle yet powerful method for modulating the composition and metabolic output of the human gut microbiota. In the context of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, synbiotics have the potential to act as cost-effective prophylactic measures against a variety of human ailments, ranging from infant diarrhoea to metabolic and inflammatory diseases in adults, by maintaining commensal microbial communities and metabolic networks that are conducive to human health.
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