ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2021
Low-Dose Lactulose as a Prebiotic for Improved Gut Health and Enhanced Mineral Absorption.
Review in Frontiers in nutrition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Functional Reconstruction of the Gut Microecosystem in Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders: Roles of Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics and Postbiotics.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Targeting the Gut-Brain-Ferroptosis Axis: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential in Alzheimer's Disease and Epilepsy.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2026Review
- Clinical efficacy and gastrointestinal hormonal effect ofAmerican journal of translational research · 2026Article
- ERAS-based sequential olive oil-lactulose protocol in day-case laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a prospective comparison.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Roles of gut metabolites on bone mineralization and remodeling: impact of metabolic dysregulation on the gut-immune-bone axis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Perennial ryegrass improves bone quality in geese: insights from the gut-bone axis.AMB Express · 2025Article
- Lactulose selectively stimulates members of the gut microbiota, as determined by multi-modal activity-based sorting.Gut microbes · 2025Article
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- Harnessing the power of Bacillus subtilis MR42: direct production of defined xylooligosaccharides (XOS) from corn stalks with enhanced prebiotic properties.Microbial cell factories · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of oral ciprofloxacin-induced depressive-like behavior and the potential benefit of lactulose: A correlation analysis.Toxicology reports · 2025Article
- Progress of research on the gut microbiome and its metabolite short-chain fatty acids in postmenopausal osteoporosis: a literature review.Frontiers of medicine · 2025Review
- Lactobacillus johnsonii Generates Cyclo(pro-trp) and Promotes Intestinal CaAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Runchangningshen paste activates NLRP6 inflammasome-mediated autophagy to stimulate colonic mucin-2 secretion and modulates mucosal microbiota in functional constipation.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Prebiotic Effects of α- and β-Galactooligosaccharides: The Structure-Function Relation.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Although medium and high doses of lactulose are used routinely for the treatment of constipation and hepatic encephalopathy, respectively, a wealth of evidence demonstrates that, at low doses, lactulose can also be used as a prebiotic to stimulate the growth of health-promoting bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract. Indeed, multiple preclinical and clinical studies have shown that low doses of lactulose enhance the proliferation of health-promoting gut bacteria (e.g.,
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