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Title: Strengthening the Immune System with Probiotics

Publisher: Alliance Biosciences

PROBIOTICS IN IMMUNITY

Probiotics at War Against Viruses: What Is Missing From the Picture?

Santosh Kumar Tiwari, Leon M. T. Dicks, Igor V. Popov, Alena Karaseva, Alexey M. Ermakov, Alexander Suvorov, John R. Tagg, Richard Weeks, Michael L. Chikindas Front. Microbiol., 20 August 2020

Abstract

Our world is now facing a multitude of novel infectious diseases. Bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics, albeit with increasing difficulty as many of the more common causes of infection have now developed broad spectrum antimicrobial resistance.

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Probiotic bacteria are shown to promote the endogenous host defense mechanisms. In addition to the stabilization of the gut microflora, probiotics have been shown to enhance humoral immune responses and thereby promote the intestine’s immunologic barrier.
Moreover, probiotics modulate the host’s immune responses to harmful antigens with a potential to down-regulate hypersensitivity reactions. Probiotics also increase immunoglobulin A (IgA) and modulate cytokine production by mononuclear cells.