Effects of short chain fructo-oligosaccharides on selected skin bacteria.

ABSTRACT: The human skin microbiota plays a key role in the maintenance of healthy skin, ensuring protection and biological barrier by competing with pathogens and by closely communicating with the immune system. The development of approaches which preserve or restore the skin microbiota represents a novel target for skincare applications. Prebiotics could be applied to balance almost any microbial community to achieve advantageous effects. However, information about their effectiveness as skin microbiota modulators is limited. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effects of short chain fructo-oligosaccharides (scFOS) from sugar beet (DP 3-5), well-recognised prebiotics, on some representative bacterial strains of the skin microbiota. We measured the growth and competitive activity

SUBMITTER: Le Bourgot C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9188601 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature