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ReviewFolia microbiologica2024

Mechanisms of medicinal, pharmaceutical, and immunomodulatory action of probiotics bacteria and their secondary metabolites against disease management: an overview.

Sundas Nasreen, Shaukat Ali, Saiqa Andleeb, Muhammad Summer, Tauqeer Hussain, Kaleem Imdad, Chaman Ara, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir

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Review in Folia microbiologica, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sundas NasreenDepartment of Zoology, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
Shaukat AliDepartment of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan. dr.shaukatali@gcu.edu.pk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2481-1978
Saiqa AndleebDepartment of Zoology, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad SummerDepartment of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Tauqeer HussainDepartment of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Kaleem ImdadDepartment of Bioscience, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, 45550, Pakistan.
Chaman AraInstitute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Hafiz Muhammad TahirDepartment of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Probiotics or bacteriotherapy is today's hot issue for public entities (Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization) as well as health and food industries since Metchnikoff and his colleagues hypothesized the correlation between probiotic consumption and human's health. They contribute to the newest and highly efficient arena of promising biotherapeutics. These are usually attractive in biomedical applications such as gut-related diseases like irritable bowel disease, diarrhea, gastrointestinal disorders, fungal infections, various allergies, parasitic and bacterial infections, viral diseases, and intestinal inflammation, and are also worth immunomodulation. The useful impact of probiotics is not limited to gut-related diseases alone. Still, these have proven benefits in various acute and chronic infectious diseases, like cancer, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diseases, and high serum cholesterol. Recently, different researchers have paid special attention to investigating biomedical applications of probiotics, but consolidated data regarding bacteriotherapy with a detailed mechanistically applied approach is scarce and controversial. The present article reviews the bio-interface of probiotic strains, mainly (i) why the demand for probiotics?, (ii) the current status of probiotics, (iii) an alternative to antibiotics, (iv) the potential applications towards disease management, (v) probiotics and industrialization, and (vi) futuristic approach.

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BacteriaProbioticsAnimalsDisease ManagementGastrointestinal DiseasesGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansImmunologic FactorsImmunomodulationSecondary MetabolismImmunologic FactorsAntibioticsBio-interfaceGut-associated diseasesImmunomodulationProbiotics

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