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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2023

Manipulating the growth environment through co-culture to enhance stress tolerance and viability of probiotic strains in the gastrointestinal tract.

Kosuke Oana, Kensuke Shimizu, Toshihiko Takada, Hiroshi Makino, Mikiko Yamazaki, Miyuki Katto, Minoru Ando, Takashi Kurakawa, Kenji Oishi

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Co-CulturingAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Kosuke OanaBasic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0009-0009-5506-2106
Kensuke ShimizuBasic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshihiko TakadaBasic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroshi MakinoFood Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Mikiko YamazakiFood Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Miyuki KattoBasic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Minoru AndoSafety Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Takashi KurakawaBasic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Kenji OishiResearch Management Center, Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

importanceThe viability of probiotics in the human gastrointestinal tract is important, as some reports indicate that the health benefits of live bacteria are greater than those of dead ones. Therefore, the higher the viability of the probiotic strain, the better it may be. However, probiotic strains lose their viability due to gastrointestinal stress such as gastric acid and bile. This study provides an example of the use of co-culture or pH-controlled monoculture, which uses more stringent conditions (lower pH) than normal monoculture to produce probiotic strains that are more resistant to gastrointestinal stress. In addition, co-cultured beverages showed higher viability of the probiotic strain in the human gastrointestinal tract than monocultured beverages in our human study.

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Gastrointestinal TractProbioticsBacteriaBile Acids and SaltsCoculture TechniquesHumansMicrobial ViabilityBile Acids and Saltsbiotechnologylactic acid bacteriaprobioticsstress tolerance

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PMID38019024
PMCPMC10734474

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