Postbiotics: current trends in food and pharmaceutical industry

P Thorakkattu, AC Khanashyam, K Shah, KS Babu… - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Postbiotics are non-viable bacterial products or metabolic byproducts produced by probiotic
microorganisms that have biologic activity in the host. Postbiotics are functional bioactive …

Bifidobacterium longum: protection against inflammatory bowel disease

S Yao, Z Zhao, W Wang, X Liu - Journal of immunology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes ulcerative colitis (UC)
and Crohn's disease (CD), increases gradually worldwide in the past decades. IBD is …

Postbiotics in human health: a narrative review

L Ma, H Tu, T Chen - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the 21st century, compressive health and functional foods are advocated by increasingly
more people in order to eliminate sub-health conditions. Probiotics and postbiotics have …

Zonulin as a potential therapeutic target in microbiota-gut-brain axis disorders: encouraging results and emerging questions

A Veres-Székely, C Szász, D Pap, B Szebeni… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The relationship between dysbiosis and central nervous diseases has been proved in the
last 10 years. Microbial alterations cause increased intestinal permeability, and the …

Postbiotics: functional food materials and therapeutic agents for cancer, diabetes, and inflammatory diseases

S Gurunathan, P Thangaraj, JH Kim - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Postbiotics are (i)“soluble factors secreted by live bacteria, or released after bacterial lysis,
such as enzymes, peptides, teichoic acids, peptidoglycan-derived muropeptides …

Recent advances and potentiality of postbiotics in the food industry: Composition, inactivation methods, current applications in metabolic syndrome, and future trends

Y Zhong, T Wang, R Luo, J Liu, R Jin… - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Postbiotics are defined as “preparation of inanimate microorganisms and/or their
components that confers a health benefit on the host”. Postbiotics have unique advantages …

Role of postbiotics in diet-induced metabolic disorders

M Park, M Joung, JH Park, SK Ha, HY Park - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the prevalence of metabolic disorders has progressively increased over the past
few decades, metabolic disorders can only be effectively treated with calorie restriction and …

Heat-Killed Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Repairs Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Damage via MLCK/MLC Pathway Activation

Z Xie, G Zhang, R Liu, Y Wang, AN Tsapieva, L Zhang… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intestinal epithelial barrier function is closely associated with the development of many
intestinal diseases. Heat-killed Lacticaseibacillus paracasei (HK-LP) has been shown to …

[HTML][HTML] Postbiotics are a candidate for new functional foods

L Wei, B Wang, J Bai, Y Zhang, C Liu, H Suo, C Wang - Food Chemistry: X, 2024 - Elsevier
Accumulating studies have highlighted the great potential of postbiotics in alleviating
diseases and protecting host health. Compared with traditional functional foods (such as …

Postbiotics in inflammatory bowel disease: efficacy, mechanism, and therapeutic implications

S Wang, P Wang, D Wang, S Shen… - Journal of the …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is one of the most challenging diseases in the 21st
century, and more than 10 million people around the world suffer from IBD. Because of the …