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New Health Potentials of Orally Consumed Probiotic Microorganisms

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The microorganism and their live formulations upon consumption contribute to intestinal microbial balance are known as probiotics. They generally live in our gut mucosal layer and also in some other body parts like mouth, vagina and offer a number of health benefits to the host. They fight with the invading pathogens by producing a number of active principles like bacteriocins or by other mechanisms and kill or outnumber them. These probiotic organisms not only fight with the pathogens of the host but also contribute a lot in improving the immunological and physiological state of the host by interfering their metabolic processes. As they colonize in vital parts of human intestine, they intricately involve with different systems of human body and alleviate the problem associated with them. The major probiotic organisms used today are the species of Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus, Pediococcus, etc. In this chapter how different strains or species of such orally consumed probiotic organisms could offer different kinds of health benefits particularly in relation to modulation of immunological parameters, allergy, and lung emphysema are discussed with very recent references.

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  1. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, Post Graduate Department of Botany, Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling, 734101, West Bengal, India

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  2. Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Microbiology Division, Department of Botany, Siksha Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, 731235, West Bengal, India

    Narayan C. Mandal

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Mandal, V., Mandal, N.C. (2011). New Health Potentials of Orally Consumed Probiotic Microorganisms. In: Liong, MT. (eds) Probiotics. Microbiology Monographs, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20838-6_7

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