postbiotics

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A form of postbiotic — Any metabolite of a probiotic compound

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noun
  1. pluralplural of postbiotic
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    Based in these results, Rescigno and coworkers has recently proposed the concept of postbiotics, meaning metabolites produced upon microbial fermentation that may have bioactive capacity and that could be useful for modulation of host response in cases of inflammatory diseases ( Tsilingiri and Rescigno, 2013 ).

    2015 June 19, Graciela L. Garrote, Analía G. Abraham, Martín Rumbo, “Is lactate an undervalued functional component of fermented food products?”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI
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