Interactive probiotics / editor, Enrica Pessione.

"This book underlines the importance of reciprocal interactions between probiotics and humans in terms of stress induction, epigenetic control of cellular responses, oxidative status, bio-active molecules biosynthesis, moonlighting proteins secretion, endogenous toxins neutralization, and sever...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Pessione, Enrica (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Probiotic social life, biochemical cross-talk and ecological relationships among bacteria / Enrica Pessione
  • 2. Fighting off human infections : a new role for bacteriocin molecules / Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Voula Alexandraki and Effie Tsakalidou
  • 3. Lactic acid bacteria to modulate virulence expression in pathogenic bacteria : an alternative to killing? / Sergine Even, Damien Bouchard and Yves Le Loir
  • 4. Probiotic-mediated modulation of host gene expression / Sarah O'Flaherty
  • 5. Bifidobacteria and their interaction with the gastrointestinal environment / Borja Sánchez, Irene González-Rodríguez, Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán, Patricia Ruas-Madiedo and Abelardo Margolles
  • 6. New probiotics : dairy propionibacteria and the modulation of gut microbiota and physiology / Stéphanie-Marie Deutsch and Gwénaël Jan
  • 7. Neuro-active compounds produced by probiotics : towards a microbiota-(gut- ) brain axis control? / Roberto Mazzoli
  • 8. Nutraceutical and antioxidant potential of probiotics : the case of selenium fixing bacteria and selenium enriched yeasts / Erika Mangiapane
  • 9. The double face of bacteria and the ambiguous role of some probiotics / Alessandro Pessione
  • 10. Probiotics meets proteomics : how proteomics can contribute to risk assessment and biomolecular understanding / Stephan Fuchs and Katharina Riedel
  • 11. Prebiotic enhancement of probiotic potential : oligosaccharides triggering modification of protein profiles in lactic acid bacteria / Avishek Majumder, Morten Ejby, Gabriella C. van Zanten, Anne Knudsen, Sampo J. Lahtinen, Birte Svensson and Susanne Jacobsen.