Kagome Verifies Antitumor Effect of Lactobacillus Brevis Subspecies Coagulans.Tokyo, Japan, Nov 11, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Japanese food conglomerate Kagome has announced that its research division has confirmed a unique property of lactobacillus brevis subspecies subspecies, also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species. See also classification. coagulans (Labre), a kind of plant-derived lactic acid bacteria The Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) comprise a clade of Gram positive, low-GC, acid tolerant, non-sporulating, non-respiring rod or cocci that are associated by their common metabolic and physiological characteristics. . In mice experiments, the division confirmed that a carrot extract fermented with Labre can effectively increase the natural killer (NK) cell activity and suppress tumor growth. Accordingly, the division concluded that Labre can exert an antitumor effect. Details of this discovery were presented at the 1st General Meeting of the Japanese Association for Food Immunology on November 9 and 10. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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