The promotion mechanism of prebiotics for probiotics: A review

S You, Y Ma, B Yan, W Pei, Q Wu, C Ding… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Prebiotics and probiotics play a positive role in promoting human nutrition and health.
Prebiotics are compounds that cannot be digested by the host, but can be used and …

Human NK cells: From development to effector functions

AS Perera Molligoda Arachchige - Innate immunity, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
NK cells are the major lymphocyte subset of the innate immune system that mediates
antiviral and anti-tumor responses. It is well established that they develop mechanisms to …

A critical review of antibiotic resistance in probiotic bacteria

T Li, D Teng, R Mao, Y Hao, X Wang, J Wang - Food Research International, 2020 - Elsevier
Probiotics are defined as live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate
amounts, confer a health benefit upon the host. At present, probiotics are gaining popularity …

Natural killer cell therapy targeting cancer stem cells: old wine in a new bottle

F Guo, Y Zhang, L Bai, J Cui - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
A small proportion of cancer cells that have stem cell-like properties are known as cancer
stem cells (CSCs). They can be used to identify malignant tumor phenotypes and patients …

Probiotics supplementation improves hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension in type 2 diabetes mellitus: An update of meta-analysis

T Liang, L Wu, Y Xi, Y Li, X Xie, C Fan… - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Although many studies have shown that consumption of probiotics is relevant
to diabetes, the effects of probiotics improves clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes have …

Natural killer cells: diverse functions in tumor immunity and defects in pre-neoplastic and neoplastic stages of tumorigenesis

A Jewett, J Kos, K Kaur, T Safaei, C Sutanto… - Molecular Therapy …, 2020 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are the key immune effectors with the ability to mediate selection and
differentiation of a number of different cancer stem cells/undifferentiated tumors via lysis, and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of probiotics in cancer treatment: emphasis on their in vivo and in vitro anti-metastatic effects

E Motevaseli, A Dianatpour… - International journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Probiotics are defined as live bacteria and yeasts that exert beneficial effects for health.
Among their various effects, anti-cancer properties have been highlighted in recent years …

Sequential therapy with supercharged NK cells with either chemotherapy drug cisplatin or anti-PD-1 antibody decreases the tumor size and significantly enhances the …

K Kaur, PC Chen, MW Ko, A Mei, E Senjor… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction and methods In this study we report that sequential treatment of supercharged
NK (sNK) cells with either chemotherapeutic drugs or check-point inhibitors eliminate both …

Targeting anticancer immunity in oral cancer: Drugs, products, and nanoparticles

L Qin, J Wu - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Oral cavity carcinomas are the most frequent malignancies among head and neck
malignancies. Oral tumors include not only oral cancer cells with different potency and …

Cutting edge: probiotics and fecal microbiota transplantation in immunomodulation

W Zeng, J Shen, T Bo, L Peng, H Xu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Probiotics are commensal or nonpathogenic microbes that confer beneficial effects on the
host through several mechanisms such as competitive exclusion, antibacterial effects, and …