English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bioengchoi@korea.com Introduction Bifidobacteria are the predominant type of bacteria found in the gastrointestinal tract, and have various beneficial effects on health (Picard et al., 2005). Intensive research efforts are currently focused on modifying the composition of intestinal flora towards a more beneficial community. One way to achieve this may be the use of prebiotics and probiotics that function as bifidogenic growth stimulators. Various oligosaccharides, and bifidobacteria themselves, can be used to promote the growth of bifidobacteria (Hopkins et al., 1998; Gibson and Wang 1994). In addition, several bifidogenic growth stimulators have been reported, including 2-amino-3-carboxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (ACNQ), 1,4-dihydroxy2-naphthoic acid (DHNA) (Isawa et al., 2002), and O-α-dGlucopyranosyl-(1→6)-O-α-d-glucopyranosyl-(1→4)-α-d-glucose (panose) (Park et al., 1992; Mäkeläinen et al., 2009). Fermented rice extracts (FRes) have various beneficial effects on health, including anti-osteoporotic (Cho et al., 2010), hypoglycemic (Lu et al., 2010), anti-tumor (Ho et al., 2010), neuro-protective (Lee et al., 2010), anti-atherosclerotic (Setnikar et al., 2005), anti-stress, anti-fatigue (Kim et al., 2002), and chemopreventive (Akihisa et al., 2005) activities, compared with non-fermented extracts. However, whether FRes have bifidogenic growth stimulating effects in vitro is not known. We therefore assessed the effects of FRe on the growth of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria, and identified the main active compounds in FRe responsible for the growth-stimulating effects.

The Growth-Stimulating Effects of Fermented Rice Extract (FRe) on Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bifidobacterium spp.