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Published on: July 31, 2019
Novel insights into prebiotic properties on human health: A review
Iramaia Angelica Neri-Numa1, Glaucia Maria Pastore1
1Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil.
Abstract:
Dietary prebiotics can be metabolized by different colonic microorganisms and release several classes of metabolites, particularly SCFAs into the intestine lumen, influencing the host physiology. Thus, human microbiota has been the focus of one of the most dynamic research fields of our time and their efforts are directed to understand how prebiotics structures and the microbiota-derived metabolites acts on signaling cell pathways and epigenetic control. Therefore, the aim of this review is to provide an overview about the new concept of prebiotics and their mechanistic local and systemically insights related to the host health.
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