Postbiotics
noun
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Noun
- 1 plural of postbiotic form-of, plural
"Based in these results, Rescigno and coworkers has recently proposed the concept of postbiotics, meaning metabolites produced upon microbial fermentation that may have bioactive capacity and that could be useful for modulation of host response in cases of inflammatory diseases ( Tsilingiri and Rescigno, 2013 )."
Example
More examples"Scientists call the bacteria-derived compounds postbiotics. They are not like probiotics, which are whole, live bacteria people take to change the microbial environment of the gut to ward off disease and improve digestion."
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