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SUBMITTER: Sakai T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6048169 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sakai Takafumi T Moteki Yasuhiro Y Takahashi Takuya T Shida Kan K Kiwaki Mayumi M Shimakawa Yasuhisa Y Matsui Akihisa A Chonan Osamu O Morikawa Kazuya K Ohta Toshiko T Ohshima Hiroshi H Furukawa Satoshi S
Scientific reports 20180716 1
Suppression of immune function during long spaceflights is an issue that needs to be overcome. The well-established probiotic Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) could be a promising countermeasure, and we have launched a project to investigate the efficacy of its use on the International Space Station (ISS). As a first step, we developed a specialist probiotic product for space experiments, containing freeze-dried LcS in capsule form (Probiotics Package), and tested its stability through 1 ...[more]