The impact of a consortium of fermented milk strains on the gut microbiome of gnotobiotic mice and monozygotic twins.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how the human gut microbiota and host are affected by probiotic bacterial strains requires carefully controlled studies in humans and in mouse models of the gut ecosystem where potentially confounding variables that are difficult to control in humans can be constrained. Therefore, we characterized the fecal microbiomes and metatranscriptomes of adult female monozygotic twin pairs through repeated sampling 4 weeks before, 7 weeks during, and 4 weeks after consumption of a commercially available fermented milk product (FMP) containing a consortium of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis, two strains of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris, and Streptococcus thermophilus. In addition, gnotobiotic mice harboring a 15-species model huma

SUBMITTER: McNulty NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3303609 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature