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Lactobacilli and azoreductase activity in the murine cecum
1Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Azoreductase activity in the ceca of mice lacking lactobacilli as members of the normal microflora (reconstituted-lactobacillus-free [RLF] mice) was compared with that of RLF mice whose gastrointestinal tracts were colonized by strains of Lactobacillus delbrueckii and Lactobacillus fermentum. Azoreductase activity was 31% lower in the ceca of mice colonized by lactobacilli.