How are probiotics believed to exert beneficial effect on the gut?
- • Immune actions
- • Decrease tumor necrosis factor and interferon
- • Induce T reg cells
- • Induce T-cell apoptosis
- • Dendritic cell modulation
- • Antimicrobial activity
- • Limited adhesion
- • Stimulated increased immunoglobulin A
- • Reduced chloride secretion
- • Enhanced barrier integrity
- • Increase mucus secretion (increase in interleukins 10 and 12)
- • Enhance tight junctions
