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Article: Lactic Acid Bacteria Modulate the Immune System.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Vaccine Weekly
- Article date:
- October 25, 1999
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(CW HENDERSON PUBLISHER www.newsfile.com) -- Different lactic acid bacteria modulate the immune system in different manners to protect against diseases.
H. Yasui and colleagues from the Yakult Center Institute for Microbiological Research, Japan, evaluated two different strains of lactic acid bacteria for their immune modulating functions ("Immunomodulatory Function of Lactic Acid Bacteria," Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, November 1999;76(1):383-389).
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